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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. The homosexual is actually characterized by this complex which takes the type of ‘the hurt small kid. as a grown-up’”

Richard Fitzgibbons, MD, a pyschiatrist, stated in the Dec. 5, 2005 meeting with ZENIT titled “The Psychology Behind Homosexual Tendencies: Part 1,” published on ZENIT’s site:

“Those with deep-seated homosexual tendencies identify on their own as homosexual people and are also usually reluctant to look at their psychological disputes that caused this propensity. Strong attraction that is physical current to many other men’s systems also to the masculinity of other people as a result of profound weakness in male self- confidence…

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