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The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues
Abstract
In 1973 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 1973 DSM-II controversy was highly public, more recently a related but less public controversy involved what became the DSM-III category of Ego-dystonic Homosexuality. The author presents the DSM-III controversy and a reformulation of the issues involved in the diagnostic status of homosexuality. He argues that what is at issue is a value judgment about heterosexuality, rather than a factual dispute about homosexuality.
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- Venue
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 1981-02-01
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 210-215
- ISSN
- 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
- 1535-7228
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- W139222725
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- 243
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.40
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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