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〕 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = South Carolina | nationality = American | other_names = | known_for = | education = Westmont College University of California, Los Angeles Columbia International University University of South Africa Southern Wesleyan University〔 | employer = | occupation = Psychologist Southern Baptist minister | title = Professor Reverend | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = Christianity | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} George Alan Rekers (born July 11, 1948) is an American psychologist and ordained Southern Baptist minister. He is emeritus professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.〔〔(USCERA: Faculty Expertise: Curriculum Vitae for Rekers, George )〕 Rekers has a Ph.D from University of California, Los Angeles and has been a research fellow at Harvard University, a professor and psychologist for UCLA and the University of Florida, and department head at Kansas State University. In 1983 Rekers was on the founding board of the Family Research Council, a non-profit Christian lobbying organization, and he is a former officer and scientific advisor of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization offering conversion therapy intended to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality. Rekers has testified in court that homosexuality is destructive, and against parenthood by gay and lesbian people in a number of court cases involving organizations and state agencies working with children.〔 In May 2010 Rekers employed a male prostitute as a travel companion for a two-week vacation in Europe.〔 Rekers denied any inappropriate conduct and suggestions that he was gay. The male escort told CNN he had given Rekers "sexual massages" while traveling together in Europe.〔〔 Rekers subsequently resigned from the board of NARTH.〔 ==Personal life, education and academic career== Rekers is married with children.〔(Psychologist Resigns from NARTH after Gay Prostitute's Claims )〕 Rekers received his B.A. in psychology from Westmont College in 1969. He later received his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1971 and 1972, respectively.〔 As part of his doctoral studies at UCLA, Rekers led an experimental study which used behavioral treatment to discourage "deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child". The study's published results stated that the "treatment intervention produced a profound change" in the subject, a boy treated from the age of 4 years 11 months.〔 In 2011, Anderson Cooper 360° featured a story about the fate of Kirk Murphy, a child Rekers states that he cured in many of his books. Murphy's siblings and mother state that the therapy ultimately had lasting damage to the boy and led to him growing up to be a man who grappled constantly with his homosexuality before committing suicide in 2003 at the age of 38.〔(The 'Sissy Boy' Experiment ), Anderson Cooper 360°.〕〔(Burroway, Jim. "What Are Little Boys Made Of? An Original BTB Investigation," ) ''Box Turtle Bulletin'', June 7, 2011, accessed July 21, 2011〕 Rekers also holds an MBA in executive management from Southern Wesleyan University and Th.D. from the University of South Africa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.professorgeorge.com/ProfessorGeorge.com/Welcome_to_ProfessorGeorge.com.html )〕 From 1972 to 1973, Rekers worked as a research fellow and visiting scholar for the Center for Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University. After completing his Ph.D., Rekers was an assistant research psychologist and adjunct assistant professor of psychology at UCLA from 1974 to 1977. Rekers joined the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1977 and became the chief psychologist at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as an associate professor of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and pediatrics. In 1980, Rekers became head and a tenured professor at the Department of Family and Child Development at Kansas State University; he left in 1985.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Alan Rekers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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