Sex Chromosome Abnormalities, Homosexuality and Psychological Treatment
ARNOLD ORWIN L.R.C.P. and S.(Ed. & G.), M.R.C.Psych.1,
SHEELAH R. N. JAMES M.B., Ch.B., D.P.M.2, and
R. KEITH TURNER B.A., Ph.D., Dip. Psychol.3
1 Consultant Psychiatrist, Regional Behaviour Research Unit, Hollymoor Clinic, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31
2 Research Assistant, Regional Behaviour Research Unit, Hollymoor Clinic, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31
3 Principal Clinical Psychologist (Research Fellow, School of Social Work, University of Leicester), Regional Behaviour Research Unit, Hollymoor Clinic, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31.
Reorientation of a male homosexual with Klinefelter's syndrome using electric aversion therapy is reported. The effectiveness of a psychological treatment tends to corroborate the finding, drawn from descriptive series, that abnormal sex chromosomes are relatively unimportant as determinants of psychosexual disorders. Moreover, the presence of sex chromosome abnormalities in psychosexual disorders would appear to present no bar to psychological treatment.
Submitted on April 1, 1973
