homosexuality – A New Vision for Mental Health

He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’

Author: Editorial 6th June 2022 0 Comments

The Mad in America website cites a New York Times‘ article , which begins: “On the second day of the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in 1972, something extraordinary happened. While the assembled psychiatrists, mostly white men in dark…
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a coherent system

American Psychiatric Association, history of psychiatry, homosexuality, Mad in America, New York Times, psychiatry

Cured: How mental illness was used as a tool against LGBT rights

Author: Editorial 29th March 2021 0 Comments

“In 1952 the APA’s manual had defined being gay as a ‘sociopathic personality disturbance’. It gave a supposedly scientific rationale to prejudices already widespread in the US and elsewhere.” Vincent Dowd reports for the BBC concerning the documentary film Cured: “Until…
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a wellbeing society

American Psychiatric Association, Culture & Society, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, documentary film, homosexuality, LGBT rights, Patrick Sammon, psychiatry, USA