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How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders
American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2017 | Mark A. Hewitt

Posted on 07/17/2017 9:06:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Breitbart:  Trump Defense Department Delays Obama’s Transgender Push in the Military

“The Pentagon is working to delay the July 1 deadline to fully implement the Obama-initiated policy that one year ago lifted the ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military.” 

While the Pentagon directive to allow transgender men and women to join the military faces an indefinite delay this may be a good time to review just how America was ensnared with this Obama-era policy.

The evidence is clear—the American Left succeeded in lobbying the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to eliminate some of the sexual identity disorders from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). 

Most Americans have little knowledge of the DSM, its contents, and its implications.  The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and “offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.”  It is used, or relied upon, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the legal system, and policy makers.  In the United States the DSM serves as a universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses.  The Department of Defense uses the DSM as its source reference for psychiatric diagnoses and metal disorders. 

First published in 1968, DSM-II, Section 3, Part V, listed Personality Disorders and Certain other Non-psychotic Mental Disorders.  In this section, homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder.  Under pressure from the Left and gay-rights groups, the APA compromised, removing homosexuality from the DSM but replacing it with the kinder and gentler descriptor: “sexual orientation disturbance” for people “in conflict with” their sexual orientation.  

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; disorders; dsm; homosexualagenda; leftwing; mentalillness; psychiatry; sciencetrust; trends

1 posted on 07/17/2017 9:06:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Another commie goal achieved.


2 posted on 07/17/2017 9:11:52 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: SeekAndFind

They also eliminated Narcissistic Personality Disorder from the DSM. Probably because so many people in the field have it.


3 posted on 07/17/2017 9:14:50 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SeekAndFind

I can only speak to my personal experience with OCD.

The prior DSM required that I recognize that my “fear and anxiety are excessive or unreasonable.” With over-valued ideas, however, I thought my fears were reasonable. I didn’t “officially” have an OCD diagnosis because of that.

New language also recognizes hoarding and cheek biting as compulsive behaviors. These were my primary behaviors but rather than diagnosis as OCD Docs following the DSM kept identifying me as “impulse coltrol elsewhere described” with perhaps some body dysphoria.

Changes like this made a large difference in treatment and medication offered. My quality of life has improved a lot since I was able to xerox a few pages from the new DSM and tell the doc “This is me.”


4 posted on 07/17/2017 10:57:52 AM PDT by pharmacopeia
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5 posted on 07/17/2017 1:08:06 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left IS a Personality Disorder!!


6 posted on 07/17/2017 1:34:02 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump.....


7 posted on 07/17/2017 9:02:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: SeekAndFind
The goal of the American Psychiatric Association, indeed of all psychiatric practitioners, has always been to normalize the deviant.

If you doubt then read some of the early works.

None of them were normal. None of them were nice people.

8 posted on 07/17/2017 9:07:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: ColdOne
Another commie goal achieved.

Yep.

[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM&t=18m 

psy·cho·sis
sīˈkōsəs/
noun
  1. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)

Reality:

XX + XX = FAIL

XY + XY = FAIL

XX + XY = Human


9 posted on 07/19/2017 3:55:11 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmk


10 posted on 07/19/2017 9:13:17 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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