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To: massmike

I bet they won’t mention the DSM II.


48 posted on 02/02/2019 6:52:07 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: CodeToad
I bet they won’t mention the DSM II.

I bet you're right!

First published in 1968, DSM-II (the American classiifcation of mental disorders) listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In this, the DSM followed in a long tradition in medicine and psychiatry, which in the 19th century appropriated homosexuality from the Church and, in an élan of enlightenment, transformed it from sin to mental disorder.

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) asked all members attending its convention to vote on whether they believed homosexuality to be a mental disorder. 5,854 psychiatrists voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM, and 3,810 to retain it.

And so in 1973 homosexuality became something that perfectly normal psychiatrists do, which may say more about psychiatrists than about homosexuals.

Question New Jersey students should ask to get them sent to PC Principal's office: "On average, do GLBTQIAs live as long as non-GLBTQIAs?"

61 posted on 02/02/2019 7:31:41 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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