Legacies of Aversion ‘Therapy’

This project, funded through a Society for the Social History of Medicine/Wellcome Trust Network grant, reflects on the history of aversion ‘therapy’ practices and LGBTQ+ communities in Britain; the legacies of these practices; and the contemporary reparative work of organisations and institutions in relation to past harms.

Looking at LGBTQ+ aversion therapy as a historic form of “conversion therapy”, we invite
reflections from scholars, survivors, policy makers, activists, former practitioners, and
scholars on how this history can inform future work.

Read our recent Open Access article in Review of General Psychology

This project is a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of Surrey, UCLan, University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham Institute of Mental Health.