3. Dr. Davison and the Gay Cure

UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is one of the rarest stories of all: a man who publicly experiences a profound change of heart.

This is a profile of one of the gods of psychotherapy, who through a reckoning with his own work (oddly enough in the pages of Playboy magazine), becomes the first domino to fall in science’s ultimate disowning of the “gay cure.”

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0:00.0	This is Unerased, a new podcast that reveals the hidden history of conversion therapy in America.
0:08.0	I'm Jad Abumrod.
0:09.0	This is episode 3.
0:11.0	Let's start this episode by talking about one of the great successes in psychology.
0:15.0	If you're living with a mental health problem, it can be hard to know which way to turn or what to do to feel better.
0:23.0	It's called CBT.
0:24.4	Cognitive behavioral therapy.
0:26.7	You hear about it sometimes in the news
0:28.7	around treatments for PTSD.
0:31.2	Like suppose a soldier is triggered by a loud sound.
0:35.0	Well, what the therapist will sometimes do is take that same sound, play it for the person,
0:39.5	over and over, but under less and less stressful circumstances until gradually over time
0:45.0	the sound gets less stressful.
0:48.0	CBT focuses on goals and focuses mostly on the present day and things that are affecting you in your life now.
0:55.0	These kind of techniques can help people with gambling addiction stop gambling,
0:59.0	people who smoke, stop smoking.
1:01.0	It is a hugely important wave in psychotherapy. It's often called
1:05.2	the second wave. Freud was the first. This is the second. And what follows is a story
1:11.1	about one of the grand poubas of this second wave and a grand awakening
1:17.0	that he had. It kind of blew up the world.
1:22.0	Okay, maybe that's overstating it but I don't know I don't know.
1:27.0	So start from all you know about Jerry.
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