Posted on 07/16/2004 8:54:50 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
In 1973, The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II).
This decision was a significant victory for homosexual activists and they have continued to claim that the APA based their decision on new scientific discoveries that proved that homosexual behavior is normal and should be affirmed in our culture.
This is false and part of numerous homosexual urban legends that have infiltrated every aspect of our culture. The removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder has given homosexual activists credibility in the culture, and they have demanded that their sexual behavior be affirmed in society.
What Really Happened?
Numerous psychiatrists over the past decades have described what forces were really at work both inside and outside of the American Psychiatric Association---and what led to the removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Dr. Ronald Bayer, a pro-homosexual psychiatrist has described what actually occured in his book, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnoses. (1981)
In Chapter 4, "Diagnostic Politics: Homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association," Dr. Bayer says that the first attack by homosexual activists against the APA began in 1970 when this organization held its convention in San Francisco. Homosexual activists decided to disrupt the conference by interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, homosexual activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA's convention. At the 1971 conference, Kamney grabbed the microphone and yelled, "Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us. You may take this as a decleration of war against you."
Homosexuals forged APA credentials and gained access to exhibit areas in the conference. They threatened anyone who claimed that homosexuals needed to be cured.
Kamney had found an ally inside of the APA named Kent Robinson who helped the homosexual activist present his demand that homosexualiy be removed from the DSM. At the 1972 convntion, homosexual activists were permitted to set up a display booth, entitled "Gay, Proud, and Healthy."
Kameny was then permitted to be part of a panel of psychiatrists who were to discuss homosexuality. The effort to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM was the result of power politics, threats, and intimidation, not scientific discoveries.
Prior to the APA's 1973 convention, several psychiatrists attempted to organize opposition to the efforts of homosexuals to remove homosexual behavior from the DSM. Organizing this effort were Drs. Irving Bieber and Charles Socarides who formed the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Deletion of Homosexuality from the Dsm-II.
The DSM-II listed homosexuality as an abnormal behavior under section "302. Sexual Deviations." It was the first deviation listed.
After much political pressure, a committee of the APA met behind closed doors in 1973 and voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-II. Opponents were given 15 minutes to protest this change, according to Dr. Jeffery Satinover, in Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Satinover writes that after this vote was taken, the decision was to be voted on by the entire APA membership. The National Gay Task Force purchased the APA's mailing list and sent out a letter to the APA members urging them to vote to remove homosexuality as a disorder. No APA member was informed that the mailing had been funded by this homosexual activist group.
According to Satinover, "How much the 1973 APA decision was motivated by politics is only becoming clear even now. While attending a conference in England in 1994, I met a man who told me an account that he had told no one else. He had been in the gay life for for years but had left the lifestyle. He recounted how that after the 1973 APA decisiion, he and his lover, along with a certain very highly placed officer of the APA Board of Trustees and his lover, all sat around the officer's apartment celebrating their victory. For among the gay activists placed high in the APA who maneuvered to ensure a victory was this man--suborning from the top what was presented to both the membership and the public as a disinterested search for truth."
Dr. Socarides Speaks Out
Dr. Charles Socarides has set the record straight on how homosexuals inside and outside of the APA forced this organization to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder. This was done without any valid scientific evidence to prove that homosexuiality is not a disordered behavior.
Dr. Socarides, writing in Sexual Politics and Scientific Logic : The Issue of Homosexuality writes: "To declare a condition a 'non-condition,' a group of practitioners had removed it from our list of serious psychosexual disorders. The action was all the more remarkable when one considers that it involved an out-of-hand and peremptory disregard and dismissal not only of hundreds of psychiatric and psychoanalytic research papers and reports, but also a number of other serious studies by groups of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators over the past seventy years..."
Socarides continued: "For the next 18 years, the APA decision served as a Trojan horse, opening the gates to widespread psychological and social change in sexual customs and mores. The decision was to be used on numerous occasions for numerous purposes with the goal of normalizing homosexuality and elevating it to an esteemed status."
"To some American psychiatrists, this action remains a chilling reminder that if scientific principles are not fought for, they can be lost--a disillusioning warning that unless we make no exceptions to science, we are subject to the snares of political factionalism and the propogation of untruths to an unsuspecting and uninformed public, to the rest of the medical profession, and to the behavioral sciences." Dr. Socarides' report is available from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality: www.narth.com.
The Importance of The DSM.
The DSM(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is the most widely used disgnostic reference book utilized by mental health professionals in the United States.
It's a manual by which all diagnostic codes are derived for diagnosis and treatment - every single physician (an estimated 850,000*) in the United States refers to this book in order to code for a diagnoses. In plain English, what does this mean? It means that for over 30 years physicians have been prevented from properly diagnosing homosexuality as an aberrant behavior and thus, cannot, recomend a treatment for these individuals.
Prior to that time, homosexuality had been treated as a mental disorder under section "302. Sexual Deviations" in the DSM-II. Section 302 said, in part: "This category is for individuals whose sexual interests are directed primarily towards objects other than people of the opposite sex, toward sexual acts...performed under bizarre circumstances...Even though many find their practices distasteful, they remain unable to substitue normal sexual behavior for them." Homosexuality was listed as the first sexual deviation under 302. Once that diagnostic code for homosexuality was removed, physicians, including psychiatrists, have been prevented from diagnosing homosexuality as a mental disorder for more than three decades.
*American Medical Association statistic, 2002.
Some heterophobics LIED!!!
If we find individuals dangerous, as in guilty of violent crime, "crimes against property" or threat of same (towards others), then prosecute them.
I see no need to think of "mental illness" as anything other than a metaphor.
I'd remove psychiatrists as expert witnesses in court proceedings.
I view psychiatrists as "metaphorical doctors". Like viewing an editor as a "literary doctor".
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For documentation of homosexual activism in both the APA's and the AAP, see the following replies in scripter's "Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1)" thread:
American Psychological Association: 121, 240 and 242.
American Psychiatric Association: 46, 139, 213, 232, 237, 239, 241, 243, and 246.
American Academy of Pediatrics: 284
Also discussed in the following replies in the thread "Christian Group's Message Is 'Hate', Editor Says:
I don't know how I missed this very good overview of how the homosexuals hijacked the APA and became "normal" overnight, as it were.
When you find relevant articles, ping me since I do the homsoexual agenda pinglist, thanks.
Homosexual Agenda/aka Jihad Ping. A very excellent summary of how homosexual jihadis hijacked the APA. To be filed, read, emailed to others, and so on. People who are still on the fence about homosexuality, or are open to learning, need to read this.
NEED to.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
What an incredibly ridiculous statement. To blame a person's sexuality for all the family problems is naive. I know of several homo/bisexual people who have and are leading full lives. I have lost straight friends to suicide. Everyone has problems. They do not all stem from a person's sexual orientation. What teenager doesn't think about or attempt suicide at least once in his/her life? I attempted to kill myself because my parents were overbearing, overprotective and just expected their child to be able to accomplish anything and everything they dreamed I could do. I am a proud father of 2 children and been married for 13 years. My wife's sister is a lesbian. The emotional strain from being gay is not becuase you are going "against nature", it is because of intolerance and hatred. I have read stories of German-Jewish children who suicided becuase they were inundated with German teachings that told them that they were evil. Were these children evil?
"i am yet to meet a homo/bisexual who either wasnt suicidal, or raped, or just has problems at home"
What do you mean by that? It sounds as if you are saying that they were raped becuase they were homo/bisexual? How is that their fault? That is the same as the "she asked for it" defense. I don't care if a woman is dancing in the street naked, that gives no man the right to rape.
I believe the Hippocratic Oath requires a physician to do no harm. By ignoring science in adopting a flawed policy that homosexuality is not a sexual deviation, psychiatrists have done incalculable harm to a generation of homosexuals and to society. As such, psychiatry has ceased to be a medical science and now belongs entrenched beside chiropractic as socially acceptable quackery.
crap. it filled in....
What do you mean by that? It sounds as if you are saying that they were raped becuase they were homo/bisexual? How is that their fault? That is the same as the "she asked for it" defense. I don't care if a woman is dancing in the street naked, that gives no man the right to rape. at what point did i blame the homo-bisexual person? Everyone has problems. They do not all stem from a person's sexual orientation.
you're right, and that is exactly what i am saying only i said more. i am saying a persons sexual orientation stems from problems.
i can think of one that coorelates well with my sexaully abiguous stage. i was suicidal. this was due to tense social interactions.
as someone stated above, if you treat the other known illnesses, the homosexuality seems to go away (in most cases).
I attempted to kill myself because my parents were overbearing, overprotective and just expected their child to be able to accomplish anything and everything they dreamed I could do. I am a proud father of 2 children and been married for 13 years.
congrats for getting through that and the happy marriage.
i never said ALL people with issues become gay, i said gay people have issues. as for the "hatred from society" bit. i dont know what you are talking about. i dont hate any body who is gay. its their call, its their life.
research (again, as shown above) has shown that even in the most homosexual-tolerant parts of the world (like Norway) depression, alcholism, and suicide run rampant through the homosexual community (disproportionate to the straight community). thats a big red flag that these people need, and are crying out for, help.
again, i am not saying all people with emotional problems are gay, or even blaming gays for being the way they are. its just a simple fact, however, that sick people need healing and love, regardless the illness.
search your heart, and your in-law's heart. it may sting, it may feel bad, but its the truth. please, stop living the lie i once told myself. its a matter of healing, not "cleansing" or hatred. on the contrary. i have several friends who are gay/bisexual. all of them have issues. all of them can be fun to be around (and i dont have to worry about them hitting on my girlfriend ;)
"'i am yet to meet a homo/bisexual who either wasnt suicidal, or raped, or just has problems at home'
What do you mean by that? It sounds as if you are saying that they were raped becuase they were homo/bisexual?"
no, i am saying a person is gay/bisexual because they were abused/raped/have issues.
Have you ever talked to a schizophrenic? Is their "illness" merely a metaphor?
No problem. Thanks for updating the database.
You're welcome.
Thanks EdReform, for the post. Lots of excellent data.
Sorry for the overlook. I will add you to my pinglist.
There is a multitude of evidence to show that homosexuals have almost completely politicized the field of psychiatry(to their point of view, not science's) save for NARTH and one or two other org's.
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