Reported Prof Who Said "I can change someone's sexuality"

I had an adjunct psych professor last semester who decided to spend a portion of a class telling us how he can change someone's sexuality with intense therapy over the course of one year.

I wasn't too pleased when he did this; it has no empirical backing, and has been banned in practice by the American Psychological Association.

So I went to a full-time professor I know well and told her I wanted to report a professor. She had me close her office door and I told her what he had said. Immediatly I could see that she was concerned with what he had done. She said it was innapropriate, and that he would be "spoken to" and told not to say things like that. She wrote notes and said that she would speak with the chairwoman of the psych department.

One of the reasons I did this was because students are very vulnerable to the information that they receive from so-called "professors" and "teachers". They will believe what one says, even if it has no actual supported proof because we are told and taught that teachers and professors are trained in their field.

What scares the hell out of me is that this adjunt professor has a private therapy practice.

 

I wrote a thread about him asking what people thought of his views on the ability to change someone's sexuality.