Another cause for worry is homosexuality, which is far more widespread than many older Americans even dream. Homosexuals are simply fixated at a more immature stage in emotional development. At birth, we are all in the “egocentric” stage. Our own wants are paramount. We have no consideration for anybody else.

Thus, the newborn baby will 1 rudely interrupt the sleep of Its parents to signal its desire for food. At kindergarten age the child begins to realize the importance of its father and mother. Psychologists designate this as the “parental” stage. Then, at 10 to 12 years we usually show a great fondness for our own sex. Boys have no interest in girls.

They regard the term “sissy” as the utmost insult. Girls stick to their own groups and look upon boys as necessary evils. This is the homosexual phase of emotional growth. But in the middle teens, possibly 85 per cent demonstrate the “heterosexual” phase, wherein we look to the opposite sex for romance and affection. Among the 15 per cent who don’t reach that heterosexual phase of their emotional evolution, some become fixated at the egocentric level, and never stop loving themselves.

This is the selfish, incorrigible group often referred to as psychopathic personalities. They will then swindle their aged parents with apparently no sincere evidence of remorse or grief. Another group of people become sO fixated at the parental stage that they always keep “daddy” or “mother” foremost in their affections and thus remain spinsters and bachelors all their lives. BUT homosexuals can be cured. I have seen many such transformations.

“Dr. Crane, I was a homosexual until I was 24 years of age,” a college graduate recently wrote to me from California. “Then I read one of your newspaper articles in which you urged that homosexual resolutely date a desirable member of the opposite sex and go through the romantic motions until ultimately the romantic emotions would follow. “Well sir, I picked a girl who had all the qualifications for a lovely wife. “But each date made it a little easier to feign ardor the next time.

And ultimately I got to the place where I enjoyed her kisses and looked forward eagerly to being with her. “That was the most influential moment of my life, for then I knew I had conquered this long-time homosexual fixation. “I proposed marriage and she accepted. We had a church wed. ding and now have two healthy children.

And I can look back with disgust to my earlier homosexual years.”.