Conversion therapy puts LGBTQ youth at higher risk of suicide, studies have found. Curtis Lopez-Galloway was 16 when he told his parents he was gay. And while he didn’t exactly expect them to throw ...

Of all conditions treated in our field, perhaps none more clearly demonstrates the need for a dynamically-informed psychiatry than conversion disorder. The patient who presents with neurological ...

Scientific studies on conversion therapy show that it's harmful and ineffective. All major medical and psychological associations oppose it. Every major medical and mental health organization opposes ...

MADISON - In a ruling that gave the governor more power over how state laws are enacted, the Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way for the state to institute a ban on conversion therapy. In a 4-3 ...

Conversion Therapy Case: The Supreme Court is weighing whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy violates free speech and religious freedom protections under the First Amendment. Credit: Associated ...

The Supreme Court conversion therapy case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a hate group defending psychological torture as a "religious right." After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme ...

Gov. Beshear signed an executive order banning conversion therapy last year. Last summer, Gov. Beshear signed an executive order banning conversion therapy and prohibiting the use of state and federal ...

As courts increasingly treat therapy as protected ‘speech,’ significant implications arise for how far the law can mandate or ...

The AMA announced its support for a federal ban on conversion therapy. Alexis Chavez, a physician and advocate for LGBTQ youth, said she's heard many horror stories from fellow transgender people who ...

A transgender woman in China who recently won 60,000 yuan (roughly $8,300) in compensation from a hospital that forced her to undergo several rounds of electroshock "conversion therapy" has told CBS ...

Every major medical and mental health organization opposes conversion therapy because research shows it to be harmful and ineffective. Even so, it’s important to know what individual research studies ...