By Dr. Margie Nichols - In 1973, homosexualy was removed om the DSM, the psychiatric ‘Bible, as a mental illns. Many LGBT people don’t fully unrstand the cril role that polil actn agast the mental health muny played advancg lbian and gay rights.
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“GAY IS GOOD”: HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALY THE DSM AND MORN PSYCHIATRY
Carol North, Amic Edor and Ala Suris, Amic EdorAbstractIn 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) removed the diagnosis of “homosexualy” om the send edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM). In an effort to expla how that cisn me about, this paper reviews some historil scientific theori and arguments that first led to the placement of homosexualy DSM-I and DSM-II as well as alternative theori that eventually led to s removal om DSM III and subsequent edns of the manual. The paper nclus wh a discsn of the soccultural aftermath of that 1973 cisn.Keywords: Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA), diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM), genr beliefs, genr bari, homosexualy, psychiatry1.
In an effort to expla how that cisn me about, this paper reviews some historil scientific theori and arguments that first led to the placement of homosexualy DSM-I [7] and DSM-II [8], as well as alternative theori, that eventually led to s removal om DSM III [9] and subsequent edns of the manual [10,11,12,13]. Theori of HomosexualyIt is possible to formulate a scriptive typology of etlogil theori of homosexualy throughout morn history which they generally fall to three broad tegori: pathology, immatury, and normal variatn [14,15,16].2.1. The theori hold that some ternal fect or external pathogenic agent homosexualy and that such events n occur pre- or postnatally (i.e., trtere hormonal exposure, excsive motherg, aquate or hostile fatherg, sexual abe, etc.).