Another respected researcher, Dr Allan Schore, disassociates his work from NARTH hustler, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi

In a guest post at Box Turtle Bulletin, Jack Flanagan exposes the latest misbehavior of NARTH board member, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi.

     ...Reparative therapy advocate and founder of NARTH (National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality), Joseph Nicolosi, has made false claims that well-respected scientists are on his side, supporting the idea that homosexuality is a disorder.
     The mistake was discovered in late 2012 by therapist, Dominic Davies, of the UK sexual and gender diversity organization Pink Therapy. He was alarmed to find Allan Schore’s named referenced in Nicolosi’s book, Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy. Within the book, Nicolosi states “I would also like to express my deep gratitude for the assistance of Alan Schore, Ph.D.”, and references Schore throughout the book.
     In response to an email, Schore replied that he was “disturbed” by Nicolosi’s incorrect interpretation of the research, and there is “no neuropsychological research” that justifies the book, or what Nicolosi is doing.

Flanagan went further in a press release from Pink Therapy, here:

     Dr. Allan Schore is a leading psychoanalytic psychotherapist and eminent neuropsychologist who has been pioneering work with brain scans for people with mental health disturbance using fMRI (function Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Dr Schore has been misquoted and his work around attachment theory corrupted in the latest book by clinical psychologist and chief executive of NARTH Dr Joseph Nicolosi, a major proponent for Reparative Therapy in his latest book ‘Shame and Attachment Loss’.
     The book’s Acknowledgements express ‘deep gratitude for the assistance of Alan Schore, P.h.d’, implying a close a personal relationship between the two men (despite spelling Dr Schore’s name incorrectly). Throughout the text Nicolosi claims homosexuality as an Attachment Disorder and distorts and misattributes Schore’s work in Attachment Theory in support of his spurious argument.
     Director of Pink Therapy, Dominic Davies was concerned to discover this connection and contacted Allan Schore to clarify his relationship with Nicolosi.
     In correspondence with Dominic Davies, Schore stated that he was “deeply disturbed” by the news and confirms that “there is absolutely no neuropsychological research evidence that homosexuality is a disorder”.     He further states that Nicolosi is also “grafting my shame and attachment models on to gender identity disorders, something I have never even written about.”

 Here is Nicolosi being interviewed for AC360: