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Joseph Nicolosi, PhD, President of this nationwide Association for analysis and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), published inside the Sep. 21, 2004 article, “Fathers of Male Homosexuals: A Collective Clinical Profile,” published from the NARTH internet site:

“One psychoanalytic theory for the connection between bad very very very early father-son relationship and homosexuality is the fact that through the critical gender-identity stage of development, the child perceives the father as rejecting. As a total outcome, he develops neglecting to fully identify together with dad plus the masculinity he represents…

One most likely cause for ‘failure to spot’ is a narcissistic damage inflicted by the daddy on the son (that is often temperamentally sensitive and painful) throughout the pre-oedipal phase for the boy’s development… The hurt exhibits it self being a protective detachment from masculinity within the self, as well as in others. Continua a leggere