Homosexuality and American psychiatry : the politics of diagnosis /

"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 associatio...

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Main Author:	Bayer, Ronald (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987.
Series:	Princeton paperbacks
Subjects:	Homosexuality. Psychiatry > United States. Mental illness > Classification. Homosexualité. Maladies mentales > Classification. Mental illness. Psychiatry. United States. Psychopathology. Classification.