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Bayer's job in his tight, extraordinary packed bullet of a book is a particular one: to tell us what was at stake when the A.P.A. erased homosexuality from its list of mental diseases in 1973.... Bayer's book takes us behind the scenes of this uneasy linguistic victory in a way we have never been taken before. -- The Nation
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This is an important book for anyone interested in how the diagnosis of homosexuality was dropped by the American Psychiatric Association in 1993. The author of this book gives a reasonable history of the events leading up to that decision and through interviews with psychiatrists who both supported and opposed the decision, illustrates the political nature of using medical diagnoses to determine what constitutes normal and abnormal behavior.
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Homosexuality, despite periods of greater tolerance, has been considered an abomination in the West for much of the past two thousand years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homosexual psychiatrists, psychiatric orthodoxy, sexual orientation disturbance, homosexual adaptation, lesbian psychiatrists, homophile movement, antihomosexual bias, psychiatric effort, homosexual struggle, classifying homosexuality, homophile groups, view that homosexuality, homosexual outcome, therapeutic posture, pathological view, gay struggle, homosexual activists, nomenclature change, pathological status, psychiatric thinking, new diagnostic category, bisexual issues, homophile organizations, diagnostic change, psychiatric perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Psychiatric Association, Mattachine Society, Robert Spitzer, Judd Marmor, Nomenclature Committee, United States, Charles Socarides, Frank Kameny, Irving Bieber, Evelyn Hooker, Richard Green, Diagnostic Politics, Ronald Gold, San Francisco, Daughters of Bilitis, Alfred Freedman, Psychiatric News, The Aftermath of Diagnostic Change, Thomas Szasz, Albert Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, Barbara Gittings, American Medical Association, Area Council New!
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homosexual psychiatrists, psychiatric orthodoxy, sexual orientation disturbance, homosexual adaptation, lesbian psychiatrists, homophile movement, antihomosexual bias, psychiatric effort, homosexual struggle, classifying homosexuality, homophile groups, view that homosexuality, homosexual outcome, therapeutic posture, pathological view, gay struggle, homosexual activists, nomenclature change, pathological status, psychiatric thinking, new diagnostic category, bisexual issues, homophile organizations, diagnostic change, psychiatric perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Psychiatric Association, Mattachine Society, Robert Spitzer, Judd Marmor, Nomenclature Committee, United States, Charles Socarides, Frank Kameny, Irving Bieber, Evelyn Hooker, Richard Green, Diagnostic Politics, Ronald Gold, San Francisco, Daughters of Bilitis, Alfred Freedman, Psychiatric News, The Aftermath of Diagnostic Change, Thomas Szasz, Albert Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, Barbara Gittings, American Medical Association, Area Council New!
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- Mattachine Review, Volumes 7-8 (January, 1961-December, 1962) by Hal Call on page 73, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud on page 19, and Back Matter
- Patterns of Sexual Behavior by Clellan S. Ford on page 46, and Back Matter
- The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct by M.D. Thomas S. Szasz on page 55, and Back Matter
- Sexuality and The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud on page 21, and Back Matter
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- Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America by Henry L. Minton on 10 pages
- Making Us Crazy by Herb Kutchins on 7 pages
- Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clincial, and Research Perspectives by Ariel Shidlo on 4 pages
- A History of Bisexuality (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) by Steven Angelides on 4 pages
- Sexual Identities, Queer Politics by Mark Blasius in Front Matter, page 357, and page 376
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