Tag: therapy

Therapist Matthew Dempsey (screen capture)Therapist Matthew Dempsey has a new web series, Cost of Two Sandwiches, where he sits down picnic style to offer his brand of “queer psychotherapeutic guidance” to LGBTQs who are struggling  with personal issues like coming out, dating, religion, sex and body image. In the latest episode, Dempsey chats with Sterling – a gay man who loves being single, but also thinks he wants a serious relationship. It turns...

As you can imagine, the study is controversial to say the least, but it’s there nonetheless. The one who took it is Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist at Colombia University analyzed the lives of 145 men and 60 women who went from gay to straight and concluded that 66% of men and 44% of women were leading fulfilling and loving heterosexual relationships for more than a year and that they were almost completely emotionally satisfied. The problem was that around...