# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-nicolosi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:04:43.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-nicolosi"
name: "Joseph Nicolosi"
slug: "joseph-nicolosi"
description: "Joseph Nicolosi 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)."
tagline: "American clinical psychologist (1947–2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Joseph_Nicolosi.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-01-24"
deathDate: "2017-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             2.633608815426997
  historical:           15.61588133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump