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To: Qwerty
You cling to an outdated DSM. You feel it was removed as a pathology for political reasons, and someday the APA may change their decision, but for the moment at least (and possibly permanently), your position is the outdated one. Until science agrees with you, you shouldn't bother bringing up DSM II.

APA...Pseudo-science is more like it. Just because someone "feels" its not a disorder does not make it so. Biological function determines it in this case. You need help.

258 posted on 02/28/2003 3:26:58 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope
"APA...Pseudo-science is more like it. Just because someone "feels" its not a disorder does not make it so. Biological function determines it in this case."

A lot of psychology seems a bit like quackery to me, but anyway.. the field is what it is and homosexuality was de-listed as a mental disorder, because there are no defining mental characteristics that can be attributed to all homosexuals.

"You need help."

That's just what you "feel".

262 posted on 03/01/2003 12:27:57 PM PST by Qwerty
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