1/ Many are fairly asking why there's a push for retracting old conversion therapy research. So here, I did your homework for you. Take a few minutes and buckle up.

Here's how old behavioral conversion therapy research still impacts people today:

https://twitter.com/AndrewRAConway/status/1535672871678115840

2/ Anecdotal evidence will be part of the discussion, so here's a positionality statement. Have a gander and then let's get started:

There's a lot to say about this ABCT/Barlow/Hayes situation but I think this point is being missed:

Maybe the US has moved on from techniques that Barlow and Hayes helped develop, but much (most?) of the world has not. This work is still being practiced today (1/3)

https://twitter.com/liz_roemer/status/1535238122073739265

I have Israeli friends *my age* who were subjected to Barlow's "fading" technique, where they masturbated with a male in mind but tried imagining a female instead. They see that part of their conversion therapy experience as sexual assault. Many self-harmed during that time (2/3)

Hello!
I'm finishing up my dissertation now and am on the US post-doc market in clinical psychology so I'd appreciate any leads.

My interests are reinforcement sensitivity, depression/anxiety, and LGBTQ+ mental health.

Shameless thread of recent accomplishments below: First of all, feel free to visit my website at benjaminakatz.com for my CV and online lectures and articles. Here are twitter threads about some of them from this past year

I JUST CAME ACROSS THE MOST ADORABLE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH I HAVE EVER SEEN AND HAD TO MAKE A THREAD ABOUT IT HAVE AN AMAZING WEEKEND!!!! Every intro to cognitive psychology course has at least one chapter where we ask how people know that dogs are dogs - after all, they look so different from each other.

This research one-ups our question and asks: HOW DO DOGS KNOW THAT OTHER DOGS ARE DOGS??