that group hasn’t functioned properly since 1973 when they allowed angry gays to intimidate them into changing the dsm to say it wasn’t an abnormality, a mental illness.
In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Removal followed a two year campaign Newsweek described as ongoing disruptive, chaotic attacks on psychiatrists and physiologists. Yet throughout these disruptive attacks, no academic papers arose at conferences refuting any research previously done. Eventually onslaughts forced sufficient abstentions, under-votes, and apprehensive responses for a third of APA’s 17,000 plus membership to approve removal.
Next activists targeted leading individual researchers such as Dr. David Reuben to ensure perpetual sanctity for the APA action. No research papers would again arise to confirm initial therapy success rates of 30% to 60 %, substantiating that 7 of 10 homosexuals could eventually walk away from the lifestyle. Persistent activism over 37 years enabled ubiquitous infiltration of academia ensuring pre-ordained theses, approved flexibility in research designs, suitable human data points, and enchanting statistical enhancements. New standards for peer review of articles ensured appropriate design definitions, outcomes, and analytical models.
Psychology and Psychiatry have chosen to relinquish scientific rigor for popular societal and political acclaim. With studies concerning homosexuality freed from objective analysis, advocates for social justice rely upon base antidotal politics to dominate debates.
Yes...the sentiment is correct. But it was the American Psychiatric Association (not the American Psychological Association mentioned here) that did that as the first surrender domino, IIRC.
Exactly. I had a decades long friendship with a woman who was a PhD in Psychology. We parted company when her vitriol became untenable. A long time ago, she told me that homosexuality had been reclassified as a ‘variation on normal’. My comment was ‘if it really is normal, without medical intervention our species would cease to exist’.
She has never married or had children, but feels completely free to make judgment on EVERYTHING having to do with children. Such hypocrisy.