Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as illness, dies at 87

Washington Post ^ | 7th February 2023 | Emily Langer

[AlaskaErik]

So the male with a mental illness got his mental illness declassified as a mental illness. And look at where we are today.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Leftist politics over sound science. And we’ve been paying for it 50 years since.

[Osage Orange]

I’m a male lesbian

[Antoninus]

So let's see--he suffered from the condition, and led the charge to de-classify the condition. Yeah, that's science for ya. Meanwhile the guy who authored the motion to declassify homosexuality changed his mind later on...

Former president of APA says organization controlled by ‘gay rights’ movement

[libertylover]

May he rot in hell for his role in getting governments to pretend that homosexuality is normal.

[Honest Nigerian]

He was famous for getting a mental illness re-classified as normal behavior. Well, since it is still a mental illness (and even worse) can we start adding up all the harm his “accomplishment” did?
Of course we can’t. The damage approaches infinity.

[samiam5]

He died from the injection?

[ApplegateRanch]

Now he can argue about it with God, during his trial.

[ApplegateRanch]

>>Sickhologists have the same success rate with patients as witch doctors. Not a joke.<<

Way back in the 60’s, John W Campbell wrote an editorial in Analog siting a study of mental health ‘cure’ rates.

Cooperating South American witch doctors ‘success rates’; American Psychiatric Association stats; and stats on “spontaneous remission without treatment” of involuntarily committed patients were compared.

The witch doctors & psychs tied, with a dismal ‘success’ rate, well below 50%; but were beaten unequivocally by the reported ‘spontaneous remission’ rates, also below 50%.

I make no claims as to the validity of the actual study, but I definitely remember LMBO when I read the editorial.

[nickcarraway]

Did he help more people or harm more people?

[Seruzawa]

Ive read that too: before psychiatrists began drugging and shocking people the more wealthy would send loopy family members to sanitariums where they were simply allowed to rest and weave baskets, etc. Some 70% returned to normal life. Apparently the most effective treatment for people who have become overwhelmed by life is kindness, not brain butchering or drugging.

[upchuck]

May Charles Silverstein enjoy his forever roasting in Hell. We are much better off without him.