HOMOSEXUALITY AND AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY

In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homo sexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatris ts charged the association's leadership with capitulating to the pressures of Gay Liberation groups, and forced the board to submit its decision to a referendum of the full APA membership. Ronald Bayer presents a political analysis of the psychiatric battle involv ed, from ...[Leer más]