In this book, the author offers a comprehensive study of unwanted sexual attraction to members of one's own sex (same sex attraction), touches on the issues of gender development and further transformation of gender identity. The author, based on the experience of successful long-term psychotherapy with homosexual men, shows that there are different ways of developing homosexuality and different options for their therapy. The phenomenon of homosexuality is analyzed through the prism of not only biological factors, but also in the context of the sociocultural environment and upbringing. The book describes the formation of an unwanted homosexual orientation, draws attention to the role of family dysfunction in this, and also proposes a healing process.

The book may be interesting and useful for a wide range of readers, especially for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and priests , family consultants, as well as for parents.