| 词条 | Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment |
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| name = Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment | image = File:Homosexual Behaviour, Therapy and Assessment.jpg | caption = Title page | authors = M. P. Feldman M. J. MacCulloch | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = International series of monographs in experimental psychology | subject = Homosexuality | publisher = Pergamon Press | pub_date = 1971 | media_type = Print (Hardcover) | pages = 288 | isbn = 978-0080162447 }} Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment is a 1971 book about the treatment of homosexuality by the psychologist M. P. Feldman and the psychiatrist M. J. MacCulloch. The work was positively reviewed. Summary{{expand section|date=October 2018}}Feldman, a psychologist, and MacCulloch, a psychiatrist, discuss the use of a learning technique to treat homosexual behaviour. They also provide what they describe as a "frankly speculative" attempt to combine different evidence to produce an account of "the development and maintenance of homosexual behaviour" as well as the motivations for and responses to treatment.{{sfn|Feldman|MacCulloch|1971|page=vii}} Publication historyHomosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment was published by Pergamon Press in 1971.{{sfn|Feldman|MacCulloch|1971|page=iv}} ReceptionScientific and academic journalsHomosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment received a positive review from John Johnson in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Johnson wrote that behavior therapy for the treatment of "sexual deviation" had a record of success, and described Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment as "a work of considerable value and practical application." He credited Feldman and MacCulloch with presenting a good discussion of the development of their technique, but noted that a high proportion of their patients had requested treatment following court referral, and argued that their success rates may have been affected by the desire of this sample to claim to have become heterosexual. He described their discussion of "the biological aspects of homosexuality" as "speculative".{{sfn|Johnson|1972|page=109}} Evaluations in booksThe neuroscientist Simon LeVay wrote in Queer Science (1996) that Feldman and MacCulloch's study of attempts to change homosexuality through aversion therapy was followed by others. According to LeVay, the authors of some of these studies argued that Feldman and MacCulloch's claims of success were exaggerated and that men who had apparently become heterosexual through aversion therapy reverted to homosexuality within a few months. Others argued that Feldman and MacCulloch had not used the best techniques.{{sfn|LeVay|1996|page=94}} See also
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