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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 "Ronald Bayer has now written a lucid, succinct, and eminently fair-minded account of the controversy, which resulted in the removal of homosexuality from the Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders."--Paul Robinson,The New Republic

Homosexuality and American Psychiatry

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/10/1987
      ISBN13: 9780691028378, 978-0691028378
      ISBN10: 0691028370

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

      Trade Review
      "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 "Ronald Bayer has now written a lucid, succinct, and eminently fair-minded account of the controversy, which resulted in the removal of homosexuality from the Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders."--Paul Robinson,The New Republic

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