'I have many gay clients and phobia is my business,' he said. This patient was straight, according to Brodsky, but he had intrusive thoughts that were not based on any hard reality in his behavior.īrodsky said a previous therapist had misdiagnosed his patient as gay, and at the patient's request, sent him off to reparative therapy, a controversial method that has not been proven to be effective and can be harmful.
'He had some sort of feeling that he was attracted to other guys.'
