The Homosexual Drive: Reparative Therapy

Reparative therapy focuses on helping people repair their “relational deficits” so their legitimate need for emotional connection and gender identification can be met in non-homosexual relationships. Psychoanalytic literature has acknowledged that the homosexual drive is actually a “reparative drive” where one seeks to fulfill needs that are normally met through the medium of the child’s attachment to the parent of the same sex. The homosexual love need is basically a search for parenting.