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'''Defensive detachment''' is form of self-protection when children who desperately long for connection with their same-sex parent grow to suspect that this relationship will only bring greater rejection and harm. Consequently, they tend to distance themselves from this parent in order to prevent further harm.<ref name="Nicolosi">{{cite book |author=Joseph Nicolosi |title=Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach|publisher=Jason Aronson |year=1997|pages=104-107|isbn=9781461630494|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=3SJNXKFRnUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Reparative+Therapy+of+Male+Homosexuality&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c5rEUfy2NIGm4AT52oG4Cg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Defensive%20detachment&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=When Passions Are Confused|author=Jeff Olson|publisher=RBC Ministries, discoveryseries.org |year=1996 |pages=14 |url=http://jesus-revolution.com/Documents/When_Passions_Are_Confused_Understanding_Homosexuality.pdf}}</ref>
* Parental emotional unavailability or neglect creates a great deal of distress for children who will initially engage in behaviors to reestablish attachment with the [[parent]]. If the neglect persists, however, the child is thought to defend against feelings of abandonment and fear by becoming detached and disinterested in the attachment figure. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_n3_v22/ai_15452824]
* Parental emotional unavailability or neglect creates a great deal of distress for children who will initially engage in behaviors to reestablish attachment with the [[parent]]. If the neglect persists, however, the child is thought to defend against feelings of abandonment and fear by becoming detached and disinterested in the attachment figure. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_n3_v22/ai_15452824]
* Moberly first proposed the model of “defensive detachment” from the same-sex parent as a cause of homosexuality, although the concept of defensive detachment itself was not new. [http://www.narth.com/docs/FemaleHomosexualDevelopment.pdf]
* Moberly first proposed the model of “defensive detachment” from the same-sex parent as a cause of homosexuality, although the concept of defensive detachment itself was not new. [http://www.narth.com/docs/FemaleHomosexualDevelopment.pdf]
* "... one constant underlying principle suggests itself from amidst a welter of details: that the homosexual - whether man or woman - has suffered from some deficit in the relationship with the parent of the same sex: and that there is a corresponding drive to make good this deficit - through the medium of [[same sex]] or “homosexual” relationships." [http://www.narth.com/docs/FemaleHomosexualDevelopment.pdf]
* "... one constant underlying principle suggests itself from amidst a welter of details: that the homosexual - whether man or woman - has suffered from some deficit in the relationship with the parent of the same sex: and that there is a corresponding drive to make good this deficit - through the medium of [[same sex]] or “homosexual” relationships." [http://www.narth.com/docs/FemaleHomosexualDevelopment.pdf]
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