Posted on 01/06/2006 4:48:13 PM PST by lizol
California Psychologist Wants 'Extreme Bias' Against Homosexuals Added To 'DSM'
January 6, 2006 - In early December 2005, Washington Post writer Shankar Vedantam reported on the efforts of UCLA psychology professor Edward Dunbar to encourage the psychiatric community to add "extreme bias" against homosexuals (or ethnic groups) added to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Professor Dunbar is considered an expert on hate crimes and serves as a consultant with the Los Angeles City Police Department, the LA Unified School District and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
The Post article quotes Darrel A. Regier, director of research at the APA who supports research into whether pathological bias is a disorder but wonders if adding it to the DSM would be useful. "If you're going to put racism into the next edition of DSM, you would have enormous criticism." Critics would ask, "'Are you pathologizing all of life? You better be prepared to defend that classification."
Sally Satel, author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine, calls Dunbar's proposal "absurd" and says such a diagnosis could be used by hate crime perpetrators to escape punishment.
However, Alvin F. Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School agrees with Dunbar and characterizes individuals with extreme bias as "delusional." He notes: "They imagine people are going to do all kinds of bad things and hurt them, and feel they have to do something to protect themselves. When they reach that stage, they are very impaired."
Shama Chaiken, with the California Department of Corrections also agrees with Dunbar. "We treat racism and homophobia as delusional disorders."
I'm fine with that. Oh, BTW, now I am officially a disabled person. I'll quit work and start drawing a disablity benefit now.
Hate crimes = any crime/action committed by a white heterosexual american male. Hate crimes criminalize personnal beliefs, one step closer to the lion's den
I hate to say it but your post is shoring up Dr. Numbskull's theory.
This is not a joke. Note what's happened in the past 30 years with homosexuality and behold what we'll see in the next 30 years with pedophilia.
It's the same APA which recently removed pedophilia from its list of mental disorders.
A kitchen wife? You know, some people, in their twisted way of looking at the world, would consider that an insult, but frankly, I'm sure your wife is a wife of many talents, and if cooking is one of them, your whole family is blessed. MMMmmmmm... Reminds me, I need to try that new Polish restaurant in town.
As for me, someday I hope to be a kitchen husband myself. And having a kitchen wife would be all the better. ;)
Very bad.
If he's referring to people who beat up, maim, or murder gays, it's just cruelty, not mental illness. And there's a remedy for that--stern jail sentences.
They did remove pedophilia from the DSM just last year. At least that is what I heard reported on a radio news break.
A kitchen wife? You know, some people, in their twisted way of looking at the world, would consider that an insult, but frankly, I'm sure your wife is a wife of many talents, and if cooking is one of them, your whole family is blessed. MMMmmmmm... Reminds me, I need to try that new Polish restaurant in town.
As for me, someday I hope to be a kitchen husband myself. And having a kitchen wife would be all the better. ;)
"As per Soviet psychiatry and as enunciated by Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1959: "Can there be diseases, nervous diseases among certain people in the communist society? Evidently there can be. If that is so, then there also will be offenses which are characteristic of people with abnormal mindsTo those who might start calling for opposition to communism on this 'basis,' we say that now, too, there are people who fight against communismbut clearly the mental state of such people is not normal."(4)
In other words, it is impossible for people in a socialist society to have an anticommunist morality. Criminality is impossible in a socialist society and those opposed to the socialist order are not really criminals requiring punishment but madmen who require treatment and rehabilitation in psychiatric facilities. And so, José Abrantes, then Minister of the Interior, speaking to Cuban psychologists in March 1987 admitted that his Ministry "has the most diverse, universal, and decisive application of psychology to law enforcement."(5)"
Link: Psychology and the Gulag
Headline: Washi wants DSM to revert back to when it correctly listed Homosexuality as a mental disorder.
I did a quick search and it appears there was indeed a call to have pedophilia removed back in May of 2005, but the APA rejected it...at least for now.
This does not bode well for the future when absolute abominations are justified as "alternate lifestyles."
This is the same APA that worked overtime to get "professionals" in the mental health industry to declare that Barry Goldwater was insane.
Nothing new here. Move along, folks.
Pedophilia has not been removed, though there was a conference held in (of course) San Francisco discussing whether it should be (along with a host of other paraphlias). Expects transvestites to be the next group "freed" from their illness.
Few realize it, but bestiality was removed in 1994. Yes, humans and animals are capable of sharing lasting, intimate bonds, and if you happen to fall in love with a sheep, that's okay, says the APA.
Yes, they're FUBAR. And yes, their arguments are composed of the multicultural, diversity is the pinnacle of existence, goobly gab B.S.
As someone in med school, if I end up matching in psychiatry (unlikely), I'd love to wage war with these morons.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200306%5CCUL20030611c.html
Ah, here's the link on the meeting that was held. It doesn't appear as if pedophilia will be removed soon, but I could be wholly wrong on that. It's amazing to me how quickly the media took to the homosexual agenda.
They're sodomites, but if we think that's wrong...we have a mental disease? What an upside down world we live in.
And the beat goes on. "One thing is for certain, it ain't never gonna stop"...Bob Seeger
I don't think we realize the full ramifications of this potential decision. It will provide a circumvention of First Amendment rights in a way that has never been seen before. ANY "undesired" behavior can be made "pathological" and THAT is the beginning of the end.
I finally have an inside angle on getting a disability check!
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