Psychosexual disorders have been largely curable since before 1940. Experiments demonstrated the effectiveness of several techniques quite early. Setbacks caused by poor funding of the research and political problems buried the results for decades and only now is it being reexamined by mainstream medical practitioners. The successes are undeniable and are leading to further acceptance of treatment by the families of the patients. I try to give pertinent details in the history of treatments in the following paragraphs. Much field research needs to be completed to make treatment more widely available.
In 1944 Dr. Carl Vaernet treated several severely disturbed patients in Prague by castration in attempt to treat their disorders with only limited and short lived success. Some died shortly afterward from unrelated complications. Their fatalities, unrelated to the treatment never the less hampered progress into treatment of those with similar disorders even while progress was made in the research with other patients. Dr. Vaernet also discovered that synthetic hormone injections causes a marked increase in arousal by homosexual males to normal stimuli. Implants were sufficiently successful to demonstrate high potential for eventual cures. Much of his team's records and notes were lost in WWII but were recovered several years later where research was renewed in Argentina. Similar research duplicated many of his findings in Japan, China, The Soviet Union, and other nations.
Research by Dr. Julius Hallervorden and Dr. Sigfried Handloser discovered
differences in neurological tissues that seem to be responsible for producing
sexual dysfunction in humans. He correctly theorized that the same abnormality
leading to homosexual disorder also caused other sexual dysfunction.
He was able to explain the long known link between pedophilia, beastiphilia,
necrophilia, and homosexual's relationship dysfunction. Japanese
and Chinese researchers independently discovered similar differences.
Excisions of specific portions of the frontal lobes cured many homosexuals
participating in experimental treatment in Poland with less than 30% fatalities
from the procedures. Of the survivors most were able to live relatively
normal lives and several had no noticable decrease in intelligence or motor
skills.
This work was also researched independently by Dr. Egas Moniz who gained much notoriety for his many successes. For his advances he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935. American Dr. Walter Freeman had great success operating on over 4000 patients curing most with insignificant fatalities prior to 1950. His work was closely followed by Dr. Kjeld Vaernet who also enjoyed great success in curing many sexual deviants in Europe.
Research begun by Dr. Bruno Weber and continued by Dr. Johan Wolff and
Dr. Serge Fernandez proved conclusively that mental functions can be successfully
altered by proper use of psychotropic drug treatment to assist patients
of psychosexual disorders in living normal lives. Aversion therapy using
such techniques as apomorphine induced reactions and mild shock also cured
many of his patients of deviant behavior compulsions relating to their
disease without the need for surgical intervention.
Dr. Eric Svenson pioneered work demonstrating electroshock treatments following castration showed great promise for the more seriously disordered. When followed by a strict regiment of drug therapy for life nearly all patients never have return of symptoms. Japanese and Soviet researchers found that combinations of all these techniques for treatment have very high cure rates and insignificant fatalities when performed properly. Lobotomy, castration and electroshock, followed by drug therapy for the most difficult cases had 100% success in curing the patients and under 22% fatality in our own studies conducted in Argentina, Brazil, and Columbia. The milder cases had few fatalities.
Soviet studies by Dr. Sergei Voronkova and Dr. Andre Kotov beginning in 1946 on sexual criminals and children showing deviant sexual development demonstrated castration to be nearly 100% effective when performed early in curing the patient but castration alone is much less effective with older patients. Partial excision of the hypothalamus followed by drug and or aversion therapy is highly effective as his data shows.
Dr. Ryuiji Kajitsuka's research near Harbin, China concluded that many
suffering from various psychosexual disorders responded positively to aversion
and chemical therapy when isolated for long periods during the treatments.
Typical isolation during treatment was thirty months. Of thirty seven patients
twenty three were cured without lobotomy or castration. Only nine were
continuing drug therapy after two years and none had been arrested for
sexual crimes including sodomy.
To this date the only studies performed in the United States have been in neurological pathology but that is changing. More patients are needing treatment and the costs associated with treating HIV related disease is making the prospect of treating psychosexual disorders before exposure to the more expensive HIV preferable. We are waiting for research to be approved and legal changes regarding the mentally impaired and their supposed right to refuse necessary treatment before we can continue here. Until it is approves it is largely academic. Parents needing treatment for their children must leave the country to have them treated and insurance does not cover the cost.
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