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  1. Charles William Socarides (January 24, 1922 – December 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, physician, educator and author. He focused much of his career on homosexuality, which he believed could be altered.

  2. Dec 28, 2005 · Dr. Charles W. Socarides, a well-known psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who maintained publicly, long after it was considered scientifically acceptable to do so, that homosexuality was a...

  3. Dec 24, 1995 · Dr. Charles W. Socarides offered the closest thing to hope that many homosexuals had in the 1960's: the prospect of a cure. Rather than brand them as immoral or regard them as criminal, Dr....

  4. Mar 8, 2017 · Charles Socarides Sr., who died in 2005, was, quite simply, obsessed with homosexuality; it was the focus of his professional career.

    • E. Alex Jung
    • Features Writer
  5. Apr 8, 2013 · By the time I was in high school and felt the first attraction to other boys, he was a renowned New York psychiatrist—Dr. Charles W. Socarides, M.D.—famous mostly for being an early proponent...

    • Richard Socarides
  6. Dec 31, 2005 · Dr. Charles W. Socarides, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who went against mainstream thinking and continued to forcefully proclaim that homosexuality was a curable neurosis, has died. He was 83.

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  8. Oct 15, 2021 · Dr. Charles Socarides was a main force behind opposing the DSM change. He spent five decades trying to, quote-unquote, cure gay men and lesbians—and the film does such a great job of...