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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. 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].
Theori of ImmaturyThe theori, ually psychoanalytic nature, regard exprsns of homosexual feelgs or behavr at a young age as a normal step toward the velopment of adult heterosexualy [19, 20]. Siarly, blogil rearchers have prumed gay men have bras that more closely remble those of women [29] or are recipients of extra agments of their mothers’ X (female) chromosom [30] beliefs ually only allow for the existence of two sex.