Homosexuality Reframed: Growth Beyond Gay

HOMOSEXUALITY REFRAMED: GROWTH BEYOND GAY

Is it true that gays are born that way and cannot change? Having grown up gay and redirected his life, Tom knows it is not. His story defines clearly and convincingly how others can chart their new course as well.

Written from personal, academic, secular, and spiritual perspectives, this book is a message of hope. It describes ways in which those homosexuals who wish to do so can realize a new way of being, moving way beyond gay. It clarifies how a homosexual identity can evolve and the real motive behind the sexual desires. It provides a rationale for heterosexuals and homosexuals to work together to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

After years working with many homosexuals as a clinical psychologist, together with extensive research, the author believes that homosexuality has been greatly misunderstood. Both the homophobia of heterosexuals and the pro-gay agenda of homosexual activists are counterproductive and harmful to gays. While there are many supports now for gays living a gay lifestyle, there is too little information or help for those who wish to live their lives differently. This book goes far to fill that void.

Thomas Pritt, a retired clinical psychologist, has worked for thirty years in community mental health and private practice, counseling with many gays. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology, child development and family relationships, he earned a PhD from the University of Utah in counseling psychology. Married more than fifty years, he and his wife, Ann, have raised a large family of nine amazing children who continue to delight and inspire them.

Ann Pritt is approaching thirty years as an individual and marital therapist in private practice, also counseling with many gays. She received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. Taking time out to be a stay-at-home mom, she later received her MSW and PhD in social work from the University of Utah.