The proper psychotherapeutic method can never be _hypnosis_. What may we expect hypnosis to accomplish so long as the homosexual himself remains in the dark regarding his false attitude, so long as he has not learned to acknowledge openly the repressions against which he has fought so long? Contrary to _Krafft-Ebing_, _Schrenk-Notzing_, and _Alfred Fuchs_, I have never met with a lasting cure through hypnotic treatment. We must accept with greatest caution the statements of homosexuals claiming to have been cured by us.[51] Case _62_ recorded in this work, illustrates that there are some homosexuals who in order to please the physician and conclude the treatment with flying colors, claim they are well without having changed in the least their deeply rooted feeling-attitude. _Moll’s_ association therapy I am also unable to accept. That method of treatment consists of the systematic development of normal and the equally deliberate destruction of the perverse, associations. _Moll_, who has proposed this therapy and given it that designation, has the homosexual cultivate deliberately feminine company so as to come strongly under the specific female influences, he regulates the subject’s reading and helps him overcome the homosexual phantasies. The subject must think of “normal pictures” only, before going to sleep and thus influence his dreams in the proper direction.[52] But one must not think, as _Moll_ concludes, that the heterosexual dream pictures which follow are due to the association therapy. The pictures thereby are merely rendered _bewusstseinsfähig_, tolerable to consciousness. They were always present. But the patient lacked the courage to acknowledge them. I do not mean to deny a certain relative value to the association method. It is certainly not an advantage for the homosexual who earnestly strives to get cured to continue to frequent homosexual circles and to have constantly dinned into his ears the assertion that his condition is inborn and hopeless. I have quoted some cases showing that latent homosexuality may become manifest through contact with and the example of homosexuals while the heterosexual leaning may be disturbed thereby. But I did not intend to suggest the advisability of any compulsory measures for restricting the homosexual’s freedom of action or social intercourse. I have already expressed myself clearly against compulsions and punishments. It is advisable to urge the homosexual anxious to get cured to give up contact with homosexual circles.