JERRY Mungadze, a Zimbabwe-raised minister-turned-North Texas-educated neurotherapist has threatened to sue after becoming the unwitting star of British television documentary Cure Me I’m Gay which was broadcast last week.
In the one-off Channel 4 programme, Dr Christian Jessen, a gay British doctor and presenter of the channel’s Embarrassing Bodies show, seeks to test a series of controversial therapies that are claimed to “cure” homosexuality.
Jessen subjects himself to a range of the “treatments”, many promoted by “pseudo-therapists and religious extremists”.
Enter Mungadze, an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University in Dallas. He describes himself as a specialist in the treatment of trauma based disorders, including post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociative identity disorder (DID), the treatment of marriage and family problems, and is an expert in neurotherapy.
Mungadze attracted Jessen’s attention “because he’s been on the Right Wing Watch-list for years following his appearance on Christian television during which he more or less said he could straighten out a homosexual’s brain using drawings filled in with crayons”.
Last year he was quoted saying that “there’s a certain colour someone uses that I won’t mention that tells me someone’s been demonized”.
In the programme Jessen strapped on a hidden camera and went to try out Mungadze’s therapy which costs between $90 and $250 per hour.
Apparently without any consultation at all, Mungadze is filmed giving Jessen the outline of a brain and asking him to colour it in using crayons after which the therapy involves asking “brown what it thinks about grey”.
Jessen’s decision to colour a section of the outline in black, Mungadze (who admits to being colour blind) concludes, is evidence of trauma that could explain his homosexuality.
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