PSYCHOLOGIST

Joseph Nicolosi

1947 - 2017

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Joseph Nicolosi (January 24, 1947 – March 8, 2017) was an American clinical psychologist who advocated and practised "reparative therapy", a form of the pseudoscientific treatment of conversion therapy that he claimed could help people overcome or mitigate their homosexual desires and replace them with heterosexual ones. Nicolosi was a founder and president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Nicolosi has received more than 269,566 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Nicolosi is the 225th most popular psychologist (down from 200th in 2019), the 9,642nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,002nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Joseph Nicolosi ranks 225 out of 235. Before him are David Buss, Simon Baron-Cohen, August Dvorak, Uta Frith, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and Jonathan Kellerman. After him are Sherry Turkle, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Cyril Burt, Hans-Werner Gessmann, Arthur Jensen, and Evelyn Hooker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Joseph Nicolosi ranks 693. Before him are Henry McMaster, Viggo Jensen, Rói Patursson, Otto Stuppacher, Boujemaa Benkhrif, and Peter Nogly. After him are Nicanor de Carvalho, Barbara Ferrell, Enrique Chazarreta, Ching Wan Tang, Rupert Holmes, and Drew Gilpin Faust. Among people deceased in 2017, Joseph Nicolosi ranks 485. Before him are Don Williams, Bajram Rexhepi, Eugenio Bersellini, Antonio Spallino, Rob Gonsalves, and Aníbal Ruiz. After him are Selena Rocky Malone, Sofía Ímber, Erin Moran, Boris Nikolov, Józef Grudzień, and Norman Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Nicolosi ranks 9,642 out of 20,380. Before him are John Hoyt (1905), Parker Stevenson (1952), John Carroll (1735), Michael Parenti (1933), Joan Leslie (1925), and Ben Harper (1969). After him are Tom Brokaw (1940), Willie Brown (1900), Jeff Stryker (1962), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882), Tina Louise (1934), and Joel Glazer (1970).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Joseph Nicolosi ranks 80. Before him are Christina Maslach (1946), Robert Yerkes (1876), Judith Rich Harris (1938), David Buss (1953), August Dvorak (1894), and Jonathan Kellerman (1949). After him are Sherry Turkle (1948), Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847), Arthur Jensen (1923), Evelyn Hooker (1907), Robert S. Woodworth (1869), and Dan Ariely (1967).

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