Interviews and first-hand accounts of an historic decision that
affected the mental health profession-and American society and
culture Through the personal accounts of those who were there,
American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History examines the
1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to
remove homosexuality from its diagnostic and statistical manual of
mental disorders (DSM). This unique book includes candid one-on-one
interviews with key mental health professionals who played a role
in the APA's decision, those who helped organize gay, lesbian, and
bisexual psychiatrists after the decision, and others who have made
significant contributions in this area within the mental health
field. American Psychiatry and Homosexuality presents an insider's
view of how homosexuality was removed from the DSM, the gradual
organization of gay and lesbian psychiatrists within the APA, and
the eventual formation of the APA-allied Association of Gay &
Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP). The book profiles 17 individuals,
both straight and gay, who made important contributions to
organized psychiatry and the mental health needs of lesbian and gay
patients, and illustrates the role that gay and lesbian
psychiatrists would later play in the mental health field when they
no longer had to hide their identities. Individuals profiled in
American Psychiatry and Homosexuality include: Dr. John Fryer, who
disguised his identity to speak before the APA's annual meeting in
1972 on the discrimination gay psychiatrists faced in their own
profession Dr. Charles Silverstein, who saw the diagnosis of
homosexuality as a means of social control Dr. Lawrence Hartmann,
who helped reform the APA and later served as its President in
1991-92 Dr. Robert J. Campbell, who helped persuade the APA's
Nomenclature Committee to hear scientific data presented by gay
activists Dr. Judd Marmor, an early psychoanalytic critic of
theories that pathologized homosexuality Dr. Robert Spitzer, who
chaired the APA's Nomenclature Committee Dr. Frank Rundle, who
helped organize the first meeting of what would become the APA
Caucus of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Psychiatrists Dr. David
Kessler, AGLP President from 1980-82 Dr. Nanette Gartrell, a
pioneer of feminist issues within the APA Dr. Stuart Nichols,
President of the AGLP in 1983-84 and a founding member of the Gay
and Lesbian Psychiatrists of New York (GLPNY) Dr. Emery Hetrick, a
founding member of both AGLP and GLPNY Dr. Bertram Schaffner, who
was instrumental in providing group psychotherapy for physicians
with AIDS Dr. Martha Kirkpatrick, a long-time leader in psychiatry
and psychoanalysis, both as a woman and an "out" lesbian Dr.
Richard Isay, the first openly gay psychoanalyst in the American
Psychoanalytic Association Dr. Richard Pillard, best known for
studying the incidence of homosexuality in families of twins Dr.
Edward Hanin, former Speaker of the APA Assembly Dr. Ralph
Roughton, the first openly gay Training and Supervising
Psychoanalyst to be recognized within the American and
International Psychoanalytic Associations American Psychiatry and
Homosexuality presents the personal, behind-the-scenes accounts of
a major historical event in psychiatry and medicine and of a
decision that has affected society and culture ever since. This is
an essential resource for mental health educators, supervisors, and
professionals; historians; and LGBT readers in general.
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