In 1973, the american psychiatric association (apa) removed the diagnosis of “homosexuality” from the second edition of its diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm) Abstract this article provides a critical overview of both the historical and current diagnostic categories from the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) that perpetuate heteronormativity This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized.
同性戀能改變嗎 從臨床經驗談天生論的迷思 Melvin W. Wong, Ph.D. 黃偉康 博士 Licensed Clinical Psychologist
In the first edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm), published in 1952, homosexuality was classified under “sociopathic personality disturbance” (1)
The last 70 years have brought psychiatry a long way, but it is only in the most recent version of the dsm that the last pieces of evidence of pathologizing homosexuality were removed (2)
