The NYSPA Report: Conversion Therapy

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• January 1st, 2016
• adolescent mental health, conversion therapy, evidence-based care, LGBTQ+ youth, mental health, professional ethics, public policy, sexual orientation
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Primum non nocere, “first do no harm,” is a maxim well known to physicians and might be one that should be taken to heart by state decision makers. It is with this dictum in mind that NYSPA urges the NYS Senate to finally pass during its 2016 session the bill defining the practice of “Sexual...