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"mentally ill"... when did they change their mind about this?
Ha ha! Lucky for you I'm a psych student.Short answer: it didn't happen overnight, but as a result of overwhelming evidence developing from the fifties to the late sixties. It's rather like the heliocentric model of the solar system: it took a while for homosexuality to be removed from treatable disorders as the weight of the evidence shifted.The rejection of homosexuality as a type of pathology is actually pretty old: it goes back to Freud, who believed all humans were innately bisexual. Alfred Kinsey's famous study revealed that heterosexual and homosexual weren't distinct categories, and while it got a lot of press, the study that was actually more effective was one done by Hooker, who showed that homosexual and heterosexuals generally scored consistently normally.By 1974, homosexuality was removed from the DSM-IV.
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"mentally ill"... when did they change their mind about this?
Ha ha! Lucky for you I'm a psych student.
Short answer: it didn't happen overnight, but as a result of overwhelming evidence developing from the fifties to the late sixties. It's rather like the heliocentric model of the solar system: it took a while for homosexuality to be removed from treatable disorders as the weight of the evidence shifted.
The rejection of homosexuality as a type of pathology is actually pretty old: it goes back to Freud, who believed all humans were innately bisexual.
Alfred Kinsey's famous study revealed that heterosexual and homosexual weren't distinct categories, and while it got a lot of press, the study that was actually more effective was one done by Hooker, who showed that homosexual and heterosexuals generally scored consistently normally.
By 1974, homosexuality was removed from the DSM-IV.
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