Ugh...this again.
Two things are absent from this APA reclassification some of the knuckle-dragging anti-homosexuals use to bolster what they think is an argument:
They apparently believe the top psychiatrists in the field were incapable of making sensible, informed decisions about an area in which they specialize and spend a great deal of time studying and interacting with patients. They have this sense professionals and doctors would not look at the science, all their data and dealings with the matter and forgo their reputations and discipline in the field to concede to noisy rabbles. The only answer for them is: those doctors must have been 'bullied.'
It only passed by 55%
Of that 55% - some were by forged ballots and forged credentials
Also - When discussing this change in classification to “not a disorder” back in 73, what isn't discussed is why it was first classified as a disorder in the first place.
Actually, it wasn't entirely deleted from the DSM - it was initially reclassified as a "Sexual Orientation Disorder"
Go back into the history of the study of psychiatry and methods used back then - heck, we only have to go back a few more decades and recall for homosexuality, some forms of depression and certain maladies, they were drilling holes in people's skulls, they were taking out full sections of their brains, butchering their frontal lobes, they were attaching electric nodes to their heads and electrocuting people in attempts to cure.
Nice History - did you ever watch "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" - what you say is true but is not really relevant to the argument at hand.
The evidence was seen, eventually, this did not work. Science, of course, is a process of trial and error and learning.
Which involves Scientific Objectivity - trial and error learning that is - I will adress that a bit further on.
Masturbation was once classified as a disorder and a cause of mental illness.
Not for several Centuries - I believe that was even pre-Freud
When they changed THAT classification, I wonder how many sad souls inhaled a great sigh of relief or did they strike out at the APA for having the audacity - the sheer gall - at reclassifying what would make most of us "disordered" today.
Who is "Most of Us" 2 - 5% of the population ? ... and of that 2 - 5% many are well aware of the fact that they have a problem,some have sought counseling - However Gay propagandists are going to great lengths to deny them the right to get the counseling they desire.
A former president of the American Psychological Association (APA),
who also introduced the motion to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in 1975, says that the APA has been taken over by “ultraliberals” beholden to the “gay rights movement,” who refuse to allow an open debate on reparative therapy for homosexuality.
In an interview with representatives of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) in late April, Cummings said that the organization’s problems began with the rejection of the Leona Tyler Principle, which required that all public positions of the APA be supported by scientific evidence.
The APA “started changing pretty drastically by the late 1980s,” said Cummings. “By the mid 1990s,
the Leona Tyler principle was absolutely forgotten, that political stances seemed to override any scientific results. Cherry-picking results became the mode. The gay rights movement sort of captured the APA.”
LifeSiteNews Mobile | Former president of APA says organization controlled by ?gay rights? movement
The Leona Tyler Principle, adopted by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1973, has just been unanimously adopted by NARTH’s Governing Board on the advice of its Scientific Advisory Committee. In essence, the principle states that
when psychologists are speaking as members of their profession, any advocacy in which they engage should be based on scientific data and demonstrable professional experience. Perhaps Dr. Tyler, then APA’s president, was able to foresee the day when organized psychology would be influenced by activism, and she wanted to ensure that psychology as a profession would not be eroded as it has today.
NARTH adopts Leona Tyler Principle
