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As of January 1, 2025, David H. Pickup (pictured above) is the board president of the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (ATCSI or Alliance.) David also serves as the ATCSI Client Rights Division chairperson. He has been successful both as a professional counselor and on the cultural/political/legal front. In his role promoting Client Rights he has provided testimony in federal court ruling related to a client rights to speak their wishes freely to medical and therapy providers. For many years counselor Pickup has been recognized for his articulate expression of ethical therapies for person with unwanted same sex attraction and disliked birth sex.
President Pickup notes that many clients are reporting the similar positive emotional change experiences in therapy, some over relatively short periods, some over much longer periods of time. He points out that gender questions, inferiority, or dysphoria during a young child's gender/sexuality developmental years can be a very traumatic experience. This negativity can be reinforced with shame-based self-beliefs for many years. Therapy means a thoughtful, respectful, professional, listening ear over time, reveals the struggles for the clients he sees. Typically…
- The pre-homosexual boy, and for adult men, bullying and repetitive shaming lead to self-hatred, isolation and a sense of not belonging and not fitting in.
- A failure to experience nurturing primary male relationships frequently imbed this undeserved shame into the mind of the client.
- The client experiences emotional wounds, (often repressed), that prevent the journey from boyhood into manhood from being fully realized.
- Maleness becomes a alien object to the client, instead of something wonderful that is subjectively experienced in their own body and mind.
- The result?... In puberty, when sexual hormones "kick in," vulnerable masculinity often is objectified and sexualized as is promoted by the popular, but empirically unsupported notion, that same sex attraction and transgender emotion are actual biological rather than psychological conditions.
Therapy, informed and shaped by empirically sound research, helps a client resolve these wounds, which then results in the spontaneous lessening and/or dissipation of homosexual feelings or the repulsions to birth sex. The wounds are replaced by confident self-esteem and feelings of masculinity for men and femininity for girls and women. .
Andy Visser Alliance Board Member
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