older schools of psychopathology, up to and including psychoanalysis, restricted themselves to methods of suggestion and training, or, whenever possible, to a complete reconstruction of the urges, modern psychotherapy tends to hold that in these cases we are never dealing with partial deviations, "queerness", or "disturbances", but that the special forms of erotic and sexual life constitute certain modes of human existence.

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In conclusion, I would say that scientific thought has searched for truth with a persistence, a knowledge and a love of the profession which justify our most profound admiration. Yet, while searching so fervently after truth, we must not forget that all this searching is in vain and remains vain, if our fellow-man is approached simply in order to "objectivate" him, or turn him into a "scientific problem", instead of with the aim of meeting him on the only ground where. there is sense in meeting: in a real communication.

It is this necessity which has thrown social science into the enormous crisis. which it faces today. The homophile has been treated as a scientific problem with which psychology, psychopathology, biology and sociology were dealing with equal zeal. So far the results of all of these efforts have been so alarmingly small that one would be tempted to call them ridiculous, in the face of the serious gravity of the problems, except that to do so would attest to rashness.

May we all, and especially the homophile who has so often been disappointed by science-recognize that new vistas are now in sight, and that our goals will be reached, as the need for communicating with each other in mutual human openness is admitted by persons of good-will-and, in spite of appearances to the contrary, there are many of these.

Then, and only then, can the truth about man be discovered, unlocked with the key of true and unselfish humaneness. Though we may not yet have reached such a point, may I quote, as a final conclusion to this paper, words written by one of the greatest minds of the 19th century, "Truth is on the march, and nothing can stop it!"

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