What they just admitted is that their discipline is not a science.
These are the sick freaks who suddenly decided homosexuality was not a mental disorder (except that it is....)
Oh, and hang every single pedophile. Next comes their advocates.
Who didn’t see this coming after the national massive push for homo “marriage”?
If I was queen for a day, I would abolish and ban psychiatry as sorcery and enabler of evil. So there.
The whole damn world is turning into a pornographic freak show!
Mistake = Trial Balloon - which got shot down. There will be another.
I was waiting for someone to use “sexual orientation” as a defense for child porn and/or child molestation.
Sexual orientation - there’s a man made term which opens the door for anything.
There is VERY little I agree with scientologists on, but here is one thing we both agree on: APA (and “psychology” in general) are of Satan.
Muslims need their 8 year old brides, you know.
Psychiatry? It might as well be phrenology.
This is the same trick they pulled with the obvious mental derangement that is homosexuality in the 70’s. In that many AMA leaders were in the closet and were blackmailed into declaring abnormal as normal.
The fascist and eugenicist powers that be have been on this curve since long before Kinsey published his bogus data. I'm reading Judith Reisman's book on this now, and it was a far uglier situation than even I had contemplated. As far as I am concerned, she picked the wrong target. Kinsey was a pawn of the Rockefeller Foundation. If he hadn't been there they would have found some other sadomasochistic homosexual pedophile to redefine what constitutes "normal" human sexual behavior.
There's nothing quite like advocating a policy that increases your customer base. What other medical profession could get away with pushing policies that make their customers sick? /rhetorical question
Despite what are often the best of intentions, it's happened.
The real problem is our legal addiction to top-down control systems, from state licensure to college accreditation. We simply must get back to bottom-up control mechanics, with competing accrediting bodies insured for the consequences of issuing defective commendations unknowingly and criminal penalties for doing so knowingly. In any field in which there is uncertainty, single point control systems simply have to end.
My DrO NEVER joined this unconscionable organization.
My secret society has decided through a democratic vote of course that planet Earth is flat as a pancake, give or take a few bubbles here and there!
They did something similar with rape (”paraphilic coercion”) by deciding it was not a mental disorder. The arguments were that it can be a crime punishable by imprisonment. But don’t use the psychiatric community to further punish the rapists. If the prison time is inadequate punishment, change the laws to allow longer sentences.
It was no mistake. The APA held numerous meetings over the DSM-V because most practitioners do not agree with the APA’s extreme left-wing views.
The APA called the raping and sodomizing of a child a “sexual practice”.
Unfortunately, liberals are totally committed to the idea that “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”.
While this is certainly a victory for family values, it isn’t permanent. This battle will be fought again and again until the left gets their way.