Is Homosexuality Curable?

My experience during the past few years absolutely confirms my belief that homosexuality is a psychic disease and is curable by-psychic treatment.

Tersely expressed: This disease in question is not a congenital condition but a psychic state which can be handled by treatment correctly applied. This belief is substantiated by the fact that in the last year four of my homosexual patients have married and are extremely happy. These were the only ones 1 analyzed to the end.

This statement stands in direct opposition to Magnus Hirschfeld and his school. Hirschfeld attempted in his characteristically efficient manner to prove that homosexuality is incurable. According to Hirschfeld the inversion is a matter of fate, a congenital condition and the only panacea is legal recognition without any punishment.

It is not my opinion that homosexuality can be cured and eliminated by imprisonment or social ostracism. On the contrary, punishment produces martyrs; develops many homoerotics through the associated dangers and secrecies. I do not wish to create the impression that the works of Hirschfeld, Blüher and their followers are dangerous, but they do produce homosexuality; they hatch homosexuals by removing from these people all sense of responsibility, thus blocking possibilities of reform; they give him to believe that the patient is not to be censored. They try to prove to him that many of the most famous intellectuals were homosexuals and he thus will find himself among the best society. By suggestion, they impress upon him that his condition can neither be changed nor cured. Many of the patients who have consulted me have either spoken with Hirschfeld or have read his works. They came with the fixed idea that they cannot be helped. They doubt the possible success of any treatment, so that in such cases the psychotherapeutic influence is greatly handicapped or hindered. They lack faith in the physician. We must understand that all these patients cling to their illness because the