Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis

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In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatrists charged the association's leadership with capitulating to the pressures of Gay Libe

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"Bayer's job in his tight, extraordinary packed bullet of a book is a particular one: to tell us what was at stake when the A.P.A. erased homosexuality from its list of mental diseases in 1973... Bayer's book takes us behind the scenes of this uneasy linguistic victory in a way we have never been taken before."--The Nation