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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I mean... With a brief half hour having a look into this earlier I can already tell you that this is a massive exaggeration. He definitely didn't invent it, he want even a prominent figure in it, nor was it his main area of focus.
He was a (pretty brutal) "psychiatrist" who engaged in DBS (deep brain stimulation) experiments, seeking to prove that it was possible to psychologically alter people by physically altering their brain (with electrodes). In one experiment seeking to prove that, he claimed that he had successfully "turned a gay man straight".
His goals weren't even anything to do with wanting to convert gay people, he wanted to prove his DBS hypothesis and did a whole load of unethical **** in the process.
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https://www.history.com/news/gay-con...s-19th-century
‘Some LGBTQ people were given electroconvulsive therapy, but others were subjected to even more extreme techniques like lobotomies. Other “treatments” included shocks administered through electrodes that were implanted directly into the brain. Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist in New Orleans who pioneered the technique, used this form of brain stimulation, along with hired prostitutes and heterosexual pornography, to “change” the sexual orientation of gay men. But though Heath contended he was able to actually turn gay men straight, his work has since been challenged and criticized for its methodology.‘
He pioneered the electric shock therapy used in conversion therapy, being an awful crazy scientist to other people doesn’t take away that fact.