Many psychotherapists across a range of modalities remain unaware that, from the late nineteenth and twentieth century on, lesbians and gay men were pathologized in classical psychoanalytic theories. For decades lesbians and gay men had been deemed ‘unfit’ to train as psychoanalytic practitioners due to failures in their early sexual development. In this article I describe the history of the challenges for lesbian and gay clients, applicants to training, trainees, and qualified psychotherapists in the UK from 1986. As emphasised by the French philosophers, Ricoeur and Doss, the work of remembering is vital if we are to prevent the repetition of failures from the past. It is important to recognise history is never linear and points of achievement are never stable; in the past four years, for example, homophobic hate crimes have trebled in the UK. I describe how lesbian and gay psychoanalytic psychotherapists, along with establishing counselling and psychotherapy services accessible to lesbians and gay men, organised conferences, spoke publicly, published, and demonstrated. Our challenges to heteronormative psychoanalytic theorising included an engagement with other disciplines such as fiction, biography, and poetry written by lesbians and gay men, post-colonial theorising, queer theory, and philosophical texts. Challenging universalising interpretations of the ‘causes’ of ‘homosexuality’ we emphasised the critical importance of attending to differences in individuals’ experiences of their sexualities and identities. In 2015 the crucial Memorandum of Understanding which protects the public through a commitment to end the practice of ‘conversion therapy’ was signed by twenty organisations (amended in 2017 to include gender), including psychoanalytic training organisations, and released at the Department of Health. This was widely welcomed after nearly thirty years of fighting for recognition of the effects of the pathologizing of lesbian and gay sexualities on people’ lives, including those of people who identify as heterosexual.

许多不同形式的心理治疗师仍然没有意识到，从 19 世纪后期和 20 世纪开始，女同性恋和男同性恋在经典的精神分析理论中被病态化。几十年来，由于早期性发育的失败，男女同性恋者一直被认为“不适合”接受精神分析从业者的培训。在这篇文章中，我描述了 1986 年以来英国女同性恋和男同性恋客户、培训申请者、实习生和合格的心理治疗师所面临的挑战的历史。 正如法国哲学家 Ricoeur 和 Doss 所强调的那样，如果我们想，记忆的工作是至关重要的。是为了防止过去的失败重演。重要的是要认识到历史从来不是线性的，成就点从来都不是稳定的；例如，在过去四年中，英国的仇视同性恋仇恨犯罪增加了两倍。我描述了女同性恋和男同性恋的精神分析心理治疗师，以及建立男女同性恋者可以获得的咨询和心理治疗服务，组织会议，公开演讲，出版和演示。我们对异性恋精神分析理论的挑战包括与其他学科的接触，例如女同性恋和男同性恋写的小说、传记和诗歌、后殖民理论、酷儿理论和哲学文本。挑战对“同性恋”“原因”的普遍解释，我们强调了关注个人性取向和身份体验差异的关键重要性。2015 年，包括精神分析培训组织在内的 20 个组织（2017 年修订以包括性别）签署了通过承诺终止“转化疗法”来保护公众的重要谅解备忘录，并在卫生部发布。经过近三十年的斗争，人们普遍欢迎男女同性恋性行为病态化对人们生活的影响，包括那些被认定为异性恋的人。