electric shocks. Research on brain implants
for treating mental disorders continues,
but no one, as far as I know, is using im-
plants to convert homosexuals.
Further Reading
Historical overviews of gay-conversion
therapy and the DSM categorization of ho-
mosexuality can be found in Wikipedia and
in a 2015 article in Behavioral Sciences, re-
spectively. The latter quotes Edmund Ber-
gler, a prominent psychoanalyst, saying in
his 1956 book Homosexuality: Disease or Way
of Life: “I have no bias against homosexuals;
for me they are sick people requiring medi-
cal help... Still, though I have no bias, I would
say: Homosexuals are essentially disagree-
able people, regardless of their pleasant or
unpleasant outward manner.”
The Singularity and the Neural Code
Return of Electro-Cures Exposes Psychiatry’s Weakness
Much-Hyped Brain-Implant Treatment for Depression
Suffers Setback
Much-touted Deep-Brain-Stimulation Treatment for
Depression Fails Another Trial
Patient in Failed Depression-Implant Trial Tells His
Painful Story
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