Homosexuality Is Removed from the APA List of Psychiatric Disorders
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Psychology, Psychiatry, Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians, Sexuality, Human Rights, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: December 15, 1973
Article abstract: After a long battle over scientific, moral political and social issues, the American Psychiatric Association abandoned its official traditional view of homosexuality as pathological.
Summary of Event
The 1973 decision of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to delete homosexuality from its list of pathological disorders grew out of a complicated struggle that spanned several years and confronted deeply held traditional beliefs about the psychology of homosexuals. With the rise of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth...
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