Homosexuality and American psychiatry
Subtitle: the politics of diagnosis
By: Ronald Bayer ; with a new afterword on AIDS and homosexuality
Series: Princeton paperbacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Homosexuality.; Psychiatry -- United States.; Mental illness -- Classification.; Homosexuality.; Psychiatry -- United States.; Psychopathology.
Description: "In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases. Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatrists charged the association's leadership with capitulating to the pressures of Gay Liberation groups, and forced the board to submit its decision to a referendum of the full APA membership."--Back Cover.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1981.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index.