Posted on 02/07/2023 1:56:52 PM PST by Ennis85
Charles Silverstein, a psychologist who helped achieve one of the most significant victories of the gay rights movement by persuading the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, died Jan. 30 at his home in New York City. He was 87.
He had lung cancer, said his executor, Aron Berlinger.
Dr. Silverstein spent decades of his life — as an activist, a psychologist and an author — advancing the cause of gay rights. He had felt the sting of discrimination and the burden of shame as a gay man who came of age at a time when expressions of homosexuality were stigmatized if not outright illegal, and when gay people were treated not only as morally deviant but as mentally ill.
Dr. Silverstein, who felt he had no choice but to conceal his sexuality during his early professional years and into graduate school, came out as the gay rights movement gained momentum in the wake of the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969.
He was nearing completion of a doctoral degree in social psychology and had joined the Gay Activists Alliance, an advocacy group that organized high-profile protests known as “zaps,” when he was invited to speak to the APA’s nomenclature committee on the matter of homosexuality.
At the time, homosexuality was categorized as a mental disorder and “sexual deviation” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a reference volume regarded as the authoritative guide to mental health diagnoses. In February 1973, Dr. Silverstein was one of several speakers who appeared before the nomenclature panel to challenge the scientific and clinical basis of that classification.
“Psychoanalysts believed that gay men were doomed to lives of depression and, eventually, suicide because of their shame,” Dr. Silverstein later told the Windy City Times,
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Mission Accomplished! Hell is an warm place to spend winters (Summers, Spring, and Fall) Charles Silverstein
He diditby conducting a terror campaign against members of the APA, with mobs showing up at their homes, etc.
Sound familiar?
Well, Shel Silverstein wrote ‘A Boy Named Sue’, are they related?
Some psychoanalysts felt incompetent.
Some psychoanalysts felt incapable of helping people.
Some psychoanalysts felt that gay men were just doomed.
And this guy recognized that psychoanalysis was a sham and he just gave up and decided to pretend that the illness wasn't an illness. Way to go fella.
It was ALL A LIE. Homosexuality IS a MENTAL DISORDER!!!
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“who helped achieve one of the most significant victories of the gay rights movement”
And one of the greatest defeats for modern society.
We don’t try to help sick people now days.
We just tell them they are normal.
Typical psychologist. The entire profession is made up of charlatans. These are the birds who come up with every one of these destructive social initiatives.
Sickhologists have the same success rate with patients as witch doctors. Not a joke.
Now that everyone has had a chance to see how deeply depraved the LBTQ lifestyle is, it is time to return to the correct understanding that this weirdo suppressed.
Look at the freaks that want to be called normal.
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Taylor must be into freaky stuff if Harry was really her boyfriend.
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You need a PhD to believe it isn’t.
Cancer can be cured easily if enough doctors can be convinced that it is no longer a disease. “All those in favor of deleting cancer from the list of diseases...the ayes have it”. Job done.
This is how ‘science’ works.
Always the freaks going after the children.
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“were treated not only as morally deviant but as mentally ill.”
Now seen as morally superior and mentally enlightened,
they get to sodomize your kid in the classroom.
You’ve come a long way baby!
His work is the equivalent of telling alcoholics that there's nothing wrong with their drinking, "so drink up good buddy...and do another line of coke."
Page one on the left’s manual
How many closets did Charles Silverstein own.
Same old crazy logic if I do it so it must be okay.
We know who was right.
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