Robert L. Spitzer retired years ago but his influence has not. That’s why his recantation last month of his own paper, research purporting to show that therapy could turn some homosexuals into heterosexuals, has such extraordinary resonance. The work of Dr. Spitzer, a psychiatrist and Columbia University emeritus professor–who actually got homosexuality removed from the medical list of mental disorders in 1973–rippled across society….
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/psychiatrists-apology-stands-out-from-typical-scientific-regrets/29351?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en