Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis

260 Pages·1987·18.31 MB·English

by  Ronald Bayer

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HOMOSEXUALITY AND AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY

HOMOSEXUALITY
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AMERICAN
PSYCHIATRY
The Politics of Diagnosis
RONALD BAYER
With a new Afterword on AIDS
and Homosexuality
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 3
Chapiteri
FromAbomination to Disease 15
Chapter2
DissentingViews: Challenges to the
Psychiatric Orthodoxy 41
Chapter3
The Emergence ofHomosexual Protest 67
Chapter4
Diagnostic Politics: Homosexuality and the
American Psychiatric Association 101
Chapter5
The Aftermath ofDiagnostic Change: Psychiatry
and the Social Status ofHomosexuality 155
Conclusion 179
Afterword to the 1987 Edition 197
Notes 219
Index 238