Andrew Gross Published February 7, 2019 Updated August 5, 2022 "Circumcision’s Psychological Damage" is the 7th article in a series published in Psychology Today which claims that circumcision is harmful. Psychology professor Patrick O’Connor argued that circumcision during infancy or childhood causes mental trauma that affects males throughout their lives. [1] My analysis follows. O’Connor began by disparaging the proposed CDC guidelines that were released in late 2014 [2],