Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Conversion therapy, also known as "reparative therapy", is a pseudoscientific therapy that aims and purports to change sexual orientation. As the American Psychiatric Association has condemned psychiatric treatment which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder , the highest-profile contemporary advocates of conversion therapy tend to be fundamentalist Christian groups and other right-wing religious organizations. Learn more about this form of therapy in this book.