Gerard van den aardweg biography
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Gerard van den Aardweg
Dutch psychologist
Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg (born 1936, Haarlem) is a Dutch psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice.
He has spoken and written on homosexuality, parapsychology, near-death experience, and anti-abortion matters.[1]
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 d