05-24-2015, 11:58 PM
(05-24-2015, 11:49 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I agree. It is no longer classified as a mental disorder because the definition was changed.
Have I said something to the contrary?
There was the implication that this was just because the gay community called for it when in reality there had been a push for several years to get away from labelling those that didn't necessarily fall within societal norms as having a mental disorder. This was seen to be highly controversial in the post- WWII era on because of what the world saw as the result of such thinking in the footage of the liberation of the concentration camps. The thinking that deviant behavior was a mental disorder was a huge component of the eugenics movement and led to the forced sterilization, lobotomization, or death of thousands upon thousands of people, including in this country.
So as the fields of psychology and psychiatry progressed there was a lot of pressure to move away from that thinking from a variety of places.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
