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UnErased: Dr. Davison and the Gay Cure

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today on Radiolab, we're playing part of a series that Jad worked on called UnErased: The history of conversion therapy in America. The episode we're playing today, the third in the series, 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.” UnErased is a series with Focus Features, Stitcher and Limina House in conjunction with the feature film, BOY ERASED. Special thanks go out to the folks at Anonymous Content for their support of UnErased.  If you want to hear the whole series, you can find UnErased in all the usual podcast places.  Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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You're listening to Radio Lab.

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Radio Lab.

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From W. N. Y.

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C.

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See?

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Yeah.

0:19.2

Hey, Robert.

0:20.3

Yes.

0:22.5

Welcome from a long and desperate slumber, Robert Crillwich opens his left eye, then his right, alerted to the presence of gentlewoman.

0:28.6

Hey, Robert, over here.

0:30.3

Okay.

0:31.2

That's you.

0:32.0

I have a thing I would like to share with you, and then by extension, the people out there.

0:38.9

What would you like to share? Something you've been mulling yeah so i recently completed a uh sort of a mini series uh in conjunction

0:45.9

with a film that's now out in the world called boy erased for a project that we called unerased

0:51.3

which people can hear they can put it out four episodes it's out there in the world, in the wild, on iTunes, Spotify, all the places.

0:57.8

And I want to play one of the four today because I think it's just, I think that it's something.

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