The Interpersonal school has been on the cutting edge of progressive thinking about sexuality. Harry Stack Sullivan, with his ward for gay schizophrenics, showed the curative value of protecting a psychotic patient from stigma and prejudice. Edwin Weinstein showed that cultural norms shape paranoid delusions, questioning the traditional Freudian connection of paranoia and homosexuality. Sullivan and contemporary Interpersonalists have tried to disconnect judgments of sexual psychopathology from cultural and religious norms, seeking instead to help people find ways of achieving a satisfactory sexual life without undue anxiety and loss of self-esteem. A key factor in maintaining a progressive outlook on sexuality is to welcome people with nontraditional sexuality and gender identification into the psychoanalytic community.