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Originally Posted by T. Damon
Uh, nope! That line of thinking was dismissed by mental health professionals over 40 years ago
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APA (American Psychiatric Asotiation) removed homosexuality for political, not psychiatric issues.
a testimony of an ex-activist-reveals gay Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders not studies, but by pressures and political issues of gay activists. One of the psychiatrists who supported this policy decision, Dr. Robert Spitzer,declares that made a serious error and presents a study called "Sexual Reorientation Therapy for Gays".
Understandably and based on this information, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) homosexuality included in the list of mental disorders. However,in 1973, homosexuality was removed from the DSM in the midst of what U.S. Congressman W. Dannemeyer named "one of the most depressing stories in the annals of modern medicine."
When Irving Bieber, a famous authority on transsexualism and homosexuality, was conducting a seminar on the subject, a group of gay activists stormed the campus to oppose their exposure. While laughing at his words and made fun of his exhibition, one of the gay activists shouted: "I read your book, Dr. Bieber,and if that book talk about how blacks speaking of homosexuals would drag you and you and you deserve to machacarÃan. "racism match with the medical diagnosis was pure demagoguery, and it is therefore not surprising that the present express their displeasure to this demonstration of force.
However,gay obstructionism to exhibitions of psychiatrists only just beginning. When Nathaniel McConaghy Australian psychiatrist concerned the use of "aversive conditioning techniques" to treat homosexuality, gay activists began throwing shouts calling him a "sadistic" and calling such action "torture".Even one stood up and said, "Where are you living, in Auchswitz?".
Then the protesters indicated their desire to intervene saying they had waited five thousand years while one of them began to read a list of "demands gays".While militant accused psychiatrists that his profession was "an instrument of oppression and torture," most doctors left the room angry. However, not everyone thought so.
In fact, some psychiatrists gays pressures found in unexpected incentives. Dr. Kent Robinson, for example,interviewed Larry Littlejohn, one of the gay leaders, and confessed that he believed that such tactics were necessary because the APA systematically refused to let gays militants appear in the official program. Then went to John Ewing, chairman of the programming committee,and said that it would be giving in to the claims of gays because otherwise "would not only break a part" of the annual meeting of the APA.
According to the testimony of Bayer, "noting the coercive terms of the request, quickly accepted Ewing stipulating only that, according to the rules of the APA convention,a psychiatrist had to preside over the session proposal. "suspected that the APA who faced from the fact that a hired security experts to prevent more demonstrations of gay violence. no avail.
On May 3, 1971,a group of gay activists stormed the meeting of psychiatrists of the year and its leader, after taking over the microphone, I blurted out that they had no right to discuss the issue of homosexuality and added: "You can take this as a declaration of war against you ". As referred Bayer,gays were served following false credentials to flood the venue and threatened those who were in charge of the exhibition on homosexuality treatments to destroy all the material if not come to withdraw immediately.
Then began a panel developed by five gay activists who defended homosexuality as a lifestyle and attacked psychiatry as "the most dangerous enemy of homosexuals in contemporary society." Since the vast majority of psychiatrists could be more or less competent,but certainly neither was accustomed to their patients tell them what to do and was characterized by the dominance of violent pressure tactics of organized groups, the gay lobby's victory was resounding.
In fact, by 1972, had been imposed as a must at the annual meeting of the APA.The following year was the great offensive to the APA DSM erase the mention of homosexuality. The papers of psychiatrists specializing in this area as Spitzer, Socarides,McDevitt were drowned Bieber or reducing their exposure time to a ridiculous fifteen minutes while gay leaders and a psychiatrist engaged politically correct statements to the press in which they announced that "doctors decide that homosexuals are not abnormal."
Finally, the alliance of Kent Robinson,the gay lobby and Judd Marmor, who aspired to be elected president of the APA, submitted for discussion a document whose purpose was to remove the mention of homosexuality from the DSM.
Approval, despite the propaganda and pressure, did not get more than 58 percent of the vote. It was undoubtedlya qualified majority to a political decision but a bit overwhelming for a scientific analysis of a medical problem. However, much of the APA members were not willing to surrender to what they considered intolerable and intrusive violent gay militancy. In 1980,DSM mental disorders included among a new gay character ailment known as ego-dystonic. With the term refers to that had homosexuality while, causing a persistent despite the suffered.
Actually, it was a compromise to appease the psychiatrists -most psychoanalysts, who still considered homosexuality a mental illness and they considered a medical and moral obligation to provide appropriate treatment to those who suffered. It was a mere temporary victory against gay influence.
In 1986,gay activists managed to expel the new DSM that ailment and even obtain a new triumph to make pedophilia also excluded from the list of psychological disorders. In the United States, at least statutorily, homosexuality, and pedophilia-had ceased to be a treatable psychiatric condition.
A separate issue is that thousands of psychiatrists accept that step because the reality is that to date have continued to insist that political ideology-in this case the gay movement, can not make their decisions on science and that,have consented to the APA, such behavior has only served to deprive patients of treatment they needed.
They think what they think about it-and the lack of medical unanimity should be a good reason to opt for caution regarding the opinions sharp-the truth was that the final decision stating that homosexuality was not a psychological disorder had been based more on political action and not of the best kind-that in a scientific consideration of the evidence. Therefore, ethical and scientifically not unlike, therefore,historical aberration as the Galileo or the purges conducted by Lysenko.
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