Events tagged with "aversion therapy"
Classification of homosexuality as a 'disease'
Until the World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from its International Classification of Disease as late as 1992, it was officially considered to be an illness or disease. This legitimised the attempts of doctors and psychiatrists and...
Wolfenden Report
In August 1954 the Conservative Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, appointed a committee under Sir John Wolfenden "to consider the law and practice relating to homosexual offences and the treatment of persons convicted of such offences by the co...
Memories tagged with "aversion therapy"
Psychiatric Treatment for homosexuality 1980
Alan recalls getting psychiatric treatment for his homosexual urges in the early 80s as a way of avoiding a fine for cottaging. "So I went to a psychiatrist at All Saints (now part of Winson Green Prison), a Mr Imlah an elderly Scot. He sa...