[Clint N. Suhks]

that issues of sexual identity--which encompass a spectrum of possibilities for any gay man--must be addressed in an atmosphere of honest encounter that allows not only for exploration of conflict and dissociation but also for restitutive confirmation of the patient's right to be himself.

From Jack Drescher, M.D., Psychanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man, it's the same for the pedophiles, bestials and incestuals.

[lentulusgracchus]

You both probably had the American Psychiatric Ass'n.'s historical page, in which Dr. Spitzer (cited in the quote to Bieber above) is identified (in a scrubbed account favorable to him) as the big pusher behind the overthrow of DSM-2 and the last clinical definition of homosexuality in 1972/3; it's here:

http://www.psych.org/pnews/98-07-17/dsm.html

For your info.