MikeinSD said:
Homosexuality is not a mental illness. Homosexuality is normal varient of human sexuality found in most cultures throughout history.
Despite some the belief of some posters, a now very aged group of homosexuals did not force the American Psychiatric Assn, the American Psychological Assn, the American Medical Assn, etc. to change the DSM for the past 40 years now. Rather, scientific research in sexual orientation concluded:
This is exactly what the gay activists which have politically infiltrated the APA would have us believe. Here is a sampling of articles that make it clear that the APA decision to remove “homosexuality” from the DSM (the universal mental health field "bible"for diagnsis of mental disorders) was policially and not scientifically driven:
Panelists Recount Events Leading to Deleting Homosexuality As a Psychiatric Disorder From DSM
Twenty-five years ago APA leaders, in the glare of a national media spotlight, took the controversial step of deleting homosexuality from the Association’s compendium of psychiatric disorders. That action launched APA on a quarter century of efforts to end discrimination against homosexuals and coincided with the increasing willingness of gay and lesbian psychiatrists to insist openly that APA must listen to them.
A panel of psychiatrists who played crucial roles in the fight to end the stigma attached to homosexuality both within and outside the mental health field came together at the APA annual meeting last month to provide insiders’ perspectives on that initiative and more recent efforts to alter how psychiatry views gays and lesbians and their sexual orientation.
Melvin Sabshin, M.D., a member of the APA Board of Trustees in the early 1970s and chair of the Scientific Program Committee at that time, described how the alienation gay psychiatrists felt from their APA colleagues led in 1970 to the start of a concerted push for APA to include them in decision making and address their concerns and those of gay patients.
psych.org/pnews/98-07-17/dsm.html
The Removal of Homosexuality from the
Psychiatric Manual
-by Joseph Nicolosi
National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
Discusses the American Psychiatric Association’s well-known removal of homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. Argues that this was done because of political pressures, the overall influence of the sexual revolution, and problematic humanitarian motives. Asserts that now homosexuals who seek treatment for their condition are often denied help by psychologists and psychiatrists.
All three great pioneers of psychiatry–Freud, Jung and Adler–saw homosexuality as disordered. Yet today, homosexuality is not to be found in the psychiatric manual of mental disorders.
Were these three great pioneers just reflecting the ignorance and prejudice of their times? Is this radical shift due to our modern-day enlightened, sophisticated attitude? Has there been any new research to account for this shift of opinion?
I submit that no new psychological or sociological research justifies this shift. Research did not settle the question. Research simply stopped, and it is politics that has silenced the professional dialogue. Now, the only studies on homosexuality are from an advocacy perspective.
Militant gay advocates working in a small but forceful network have caused apathy and confusion within our society. They insist that acceptance of the homosexual as a person cannot occur without endorsement of the homosexual condition. Intellectual circles too–who are self-conscious about sounding intolerant–proclaim homosexuality as normal, yet it is still not so for the average person for whom it “just doesn’t seem right.”
catholicsocialscientists.org/Symposium2–Nicolosi–mss.htm
