Sexual Conversion Therapy
Subtitle: Ethical, Clincial, and Research Perspectives
Contributors: Ariel Shidlo (Editor); Michael Schroeder (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Medical Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780789019103
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Lesbian Studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Psychotherapy - General; Mental health; Gays; Sociology; Social Science; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - Ethics; Mental health services; Gay Studies; Homosexuality
First sentence: The American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Bayer, 1981) has been followed by an era of significant improvements in the sociopolitical standing of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in the United States.