<p>For almost forty years, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Sr. assisted hundreds of clients with their goal to reduce their same-sex attractions and explore their heterosexual potential.</p><p>He began this work in 1981 as the originator of reparative therapy®. His pioneering work ended when he passed away suddenly in March of 2017.&nbsp;</p><p>A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicolosi believed that our bodies tell us who we are, and that our bodies have made us for heterosexality.&nbsp;Dr. Nicolosi's research led him to conclude that homosexuality, is rooted in trauma; it is an attempt to "repair" a deep emotional wound that left the boy alienated from his own natural masculinity.</p><p>Many contemporary therapists view the client's gay feelings as unchangeable and biologically rooted.&nbsp;But the ethical therapist will always look below the surface and ask "why," rather than locking the client into an unwanted gay self-identity.</p><p>Dr. Nicolosi's clients often told him the following: "I know, on some deep level, that I'm a heterosexual man. But I'm troubled by these attractions that prevent me from being who I really am." Many of these men were victims of homosexual sexual abuse.&nbsp;Others felt alienated from their fathers and male peers, and grew up with an unfulfilled longing for male affection, attention and approval.&nbsp;That childhood deficit left them with attractions that they find compelling, but deeply problematic.&nbsp;Acting on their attractions interferes with their values, their marriages, and deeply held beliefs of who they really are. These men don't consider themselves "gay."&nbsp;They see themselves as heterosexual men with a homosexual problem.&nbsp;</p><p>This book contains chapters on the origins and meaning of same-sex attraction,&nbsp;and describes how the process of self-understanding can lead to self-acceptance, emphasizing that the client must first accept himself as he is, before change is possible.&nbsp;The book then delves into the role of childhood trauma; the origins of transgenderism; mother-son boundary violations in the childhoods of homosexual men; and the damage inflicted on a child by a narcissistic parent. Other chapters reveal the dark side of the gay movement, Freud's beliefs about homosexuality, and the perspective of a poet and philosopher who says homosexuality is "against art."</p><p><em>The Best of Joseph Nicolosi:&nbsp;Collected Articles by the Originator of Reparative Therapy,</em> is the final book to come from the pen of a bold, original thinker.&nbsp;His work stands out as unique in this era of stifling "groupthink" within the psychological profession. Dr. Nicolosi's articles are supplemented here with a Foreword and two chapters by the author's widow, Linda A. Nicolosi, who also added two Case Stories by David Pickup, a distinguished therapist and successful practitioner of Nicolosi's Reparative Therapy. Mrs. Nicolosi worked for nearly four decades as Dr. Nicolosi's assistant and editor.</p>