'I have many gay clients and phobia is my business,' he said. This patient was straight, according to Brodsky, but he had intrusive thoughts that were not based on any hard reality in his behavior.īrodsky said a previous therapist had misdiagnosed his patient as gay, and at the patient's request, sent him off to reparative therapy, a controversial method that has not been proven to be effective and can be harmful. 'He had some sort of feeling that he was attracted to other guys.' Brodsky said he determined his patient had OCD associated with homosexuality. and N.J., said he had one adult patient who was so crippled by obsessive thoughts about being gay that he was unable to live independently and had to move back in with his parents to cope.
24, 2014— - Steven Brodsky, a psychologist who specializes in obsessive-compulsive disorder, says that at any one time he has a 'handful' of clients who are straight and suspect that they are gay.īrodsky, who is the clinical director of his OCD and Panic Center of N.Y.
