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During the
2015 Irish referendum on same-sex marriage, he "claimed the Nazi party was
‘rooted’ in homosexuals (and that) many scientific institutions have been taken over by “active militant gays” who produce information to further the gay cause".[2]
Biography
Van den Aardweg received his PhD in psychology from the
University of Amsterdam[3] with a dissertation published in 1967 under the title "Homophilia, neurosis and compulsive self-pity".[4] It was the Netherlands' first dissertation on homosexuality.[5]
Van den Aardweg rejects the idea that
homosexuality is a
biologically innatetrait.[2] Instead, he calls homosexuality (an expression of) "a disease of infantile self pity."[6] Van den Aardweg believes that no one is born gay, that there are no gay children, and that "[h]omosexuality is not equal to heterosexuality. Scientifically this is absolutely absurd."[2][7][8]
Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg (1984). On the Origins and Treatment of Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Reinterpretation (in Dutch, English, and German). Vol. 2.
Bruges:
Tabor. p. 98.
ISBN9780275902339.
OCLC898786783.
The Battle for Normality: Self-Therapy for Homosexual PersonsISBN0898706149 (1997)
^G.J.M. van den Aardweg, Homofilie, neurose en dwangzelfbeklag: Een psychologische theorie over homofilie, toegelicht met een analyse van leven en werk van
André Gide. Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep.,
OCLC262704638