0 treatment that is intended to change someone's sexual orientation, especially from being gay to being heterosexual:
He interviewed members of the Church who underwent some form of conversion therapy.
The American Psychological Association says so-called conversion therapy is not supported by science.
More than 200 residential centres in the United States now offer conversion therapy.
In most sexual conversion therapies, whether they're religious or secular, homosexuality is viewed as a dysfunction or pathology.
He said, "There is no evidence that conversion therapy is effective, though there is evidence of mental health risks associated with the use of such approaches with gay, lesbian and bisexual people."
