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 · In homosexuality per se was removed from the DSM-II classification of mental disorders and replaced by the category Sexual Orientation Disturbance. This represented a compromise between the view that preferential homosexuality is invariably a mental disorder and the view that it is merely a normal sexual variant.  · Forty-four years ago today, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) -- the largest psychiatric organization in the world -- made history by issuing a resolution stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness or sickness. This declaration helped shift public opinion, marking a major milestone for LGBTQ equality. The resolution stated, “We will no longer insist on a label of sickness . The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM -5) Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD Homosexuality was considered a form of deviant behavior and was a psychiatric condition. mental disorderFile Size: 1MB.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides diagnostic criteria for mental www.doorway.ru is used in the United States and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers. In homosexuality per se was removed from the DSM-II classification of mental disorders and replaced by the category Sexual Orientation Disturbance. This represented a compromise between the view that preferential homosexuality is invariably a mental disorder and the view that it is merely a normal sexual variant. While the DSM-II controversy was highly public, more recently a related. weakened in when the APA published the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As Rubin () notes, be­ cause of its classification of certain types of sexual behaviors as mental disorders, the DSM became a "fairly reliable map of the current moral hierarchy of sexual activities" (p. 12).

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM -5) Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD cnuckols@www.doorway.ru www.doorway.ru Consequently, in , when APA published the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-I), it listed all the conditions psychiatrists then considered to be a mental disorder. DSM-I classified “homosexuality” as a “sociopathic personality disturbance.”. – On 15 October the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry Federal Council declares homosexuality not an illness – the first such body in the world to do so; in December the American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II), based largely on the.