Until 1973, doctors tomatilly classified every gay man and lbian as mentally ill. CURED tells the David-vers-Goliath story of the activists who challenged this diagnosis — and won.
Contents:
- IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"
- I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY
- RODRIGO DUTERTE SAYS HE ‘CURED’ HIMSELF FROM BEG GAY
- 5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
IT IS NOW 50 YEARS SCE GAY PEOPLE WERE “CURED"
How beg gay went om a mental disorr to a human-rights movement. * cured from gay *
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s Diagnostic Manual 1973. It led to an important shift mental health practic as clicians stopped askg qutns like “What homosexualy?
I WAS 19, GAY AND READY TO BE ‘CURED’ BY NVERSN THERAPY
* cured from gay *
An openly gay physician, psychiatrist, or other mental-health profsnal uld lose their state license to practice.
RODRIGO DUTERTE SAYS HE ‘CURED’ HIMSELF FROM BEG GAY
The Philipp print, llg a polil rival gay, said he ed to be gay himself but was cured wh the help of “betiful women.” * cured from gay *
Psychiatric diagnosg of homosexualy as a mental disorr began the 19th century, most promently the work of Richard von Krafft-Ebg, who thought was due to “generatn” of the nervo system—generacy beg a now-disproven medil theory of that era.
5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Sigmund Frd directly disagreed wh Krafft-Ebg’s ncept of homosexualy as an illns and stead saw as a “velopmental arrt, ” a kd of psychologil immatury. However, by the middle of the 20th century, the belief that homosexualy was a mental disorr was the prevailg view among psychiatrists and most of Frd’s psychoanalytic followers.
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
Th, 1952, when the APA published the first edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM-I), classified “homosexualy” as a “socpathic personaly disturbance. The psychiatric perspectiv on homosexualy were drawn om a skewed sample of patients seekg treatment for homosexualy or other difficulti and studi of prison populatns.