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Thats why it was a big deal in 1973 when the american psychiatric association decided that homosexuality no longer constituted a psychiatric disorder. they delisted it as a psychiatric disorder in the dsm. for decades, basically forever, psychiatrists had, with this book said, if youre gay, youre sick. you have a medical ailment, a mental disorder. there is something wrong with you. and so in 1973, when psychiatrists went to change that, it caused a lot of controversy. one of the prime movers be...

People, but instead counted on people sent to him from anti-gay groups. dr. spitzer now says, "the findings can be considered evidence for what those who have undergone ex-gay therapy say about it, but nothing more." dr. spitzer essentially saying that study was not science, it was just a series of anecdotes. hes sorry it was published. he wants to take it back. so what does this do to all the cure the gay people? do they go back to being seen as quacks, or do republicans keep inviting them to t...

Politics. it has been like that since the bombshell robert spitzer study mainstreamed this kind of thinking back in 2001. it has been that way for 11 years now. it has been that way for 11 years, until last week when all of a sudden it stopped being like that. because last week dr. robert spitzer made it known that he would please like to take that study back from 2001. he would like to retract it. it does not mean what people think it means and he wishes it would not have published. last week t...

To heal gay people of their supposed illness. suddenly, these folks were being told by the american psychiatric association, hey, you are trying to heal people who arent sick. the anti-gay, "we can cure you" folks did stick around for years, for decades, even, but frankly, they were on the fringes of quackery, of pseudo religious, pseudo anti-gay politics. until something crazy happened. in 2001, this came out. can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation? this was not published...

Robert l. spitzer who had been so instrumental in delisting homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973. in 2001, 28 years after dr. spitzer told the country that being gay doesnt make you sick, he published this, this study, which says he studied a couple hundred patients and he found that you could, in some instances, pray away the gay! you could get rid of your homosexuality through therapy or something. he said some gay people, essentially, could be turned straight. the anti-gay groups, the b...

Sickness, what counts as a mental disorder is framed by whats in the dsm. thats why it was a big deal in 1973 when the american psychiatric association decided that homosexuality no longer constituted a psychiatric disorder. they delisted it as a psychiatric disorder in the dsm. for decades, basically forever, psychiatrists had, with this book said, if youre gay, youre sick. you have a medical ailment, a mental disorder. there is something wrong with you. and so in 1973, when psychiatrists went ...

In 2001, 11 years ago, dr. robert spitzers work has been cited as proof that if you want it enough, you can turn yourself from gay to straight. the cure the gay people have spent that last 11 years moving to the center of anti-gay politics in the united states. they have become as mainstream as you can get in the anti-gay political world. when president george w. bush urged congress in 2006 to amend the united states constitution, to make it anti-gay marriage, the bush white house made sure that...

Findings can be considered evidence for what those who have undergone ex-gay therapy say about it, but nothing more." dr. spitzer essentially saying that study was not science, it was just a series of anecdotes. hes sorry it was published. he wants to take it back. so what does this do to all the cure the gay people? do they go back to being seen as quacks, or do republicans keep inviting them to the white house and speaking before them as presidential candidates? what happens next? well, the fi...

Whats in the dsm. thats why it was a big deal in 1973 when the american psychiatric association decided that homosexuality no longer constituted a psychiatric disorder. they delisted it as a psychiatric disorder in the dsm. for decades, basically forever, psychiatrists had, with this book said, if youre gay, youre sick. you have a medical ailment, a mental disorder. there is something wrong with you. and so in 1973, when psychiatrists went to change that, it caused a lot of controversy. one of t...