Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis

by Ronald Bayer

Book Overview

In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028370
• ISBN13: 9780691028378
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

How homosexuality was cured!

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.