CURED - TrailerCURED tells the story of the activists who brought about a pivotal but little-known victory in the movement for LGBTQ equality: the American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses.
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How A Gay Psychiatrist's 1972 Speech Changed The Course Of LGBTQ HistoryDr. John Fryer revolutionized mental health care by speaking publicly about being gay at a 1972 conference of psychiatrists. NBC News’ Jillian Eugenios joins News NOW to discuss Fryer’s legacy.
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History of Psychiatry - Psychiatry and HomosexualityProduced by the Committee on Arts and Humanities of the
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
Part of a planned multi-episode series on the History of Psychiatry
Narrated by Kenneth Weiss, MD
Music by David Sasso, MD
Edited by Donald Fidler, MD
Copyright GAP 2020
www.ourgap.org
Wait, Is It True That 50 Years Ago Queer Was A Mental IllnessThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s removal of homosexuality from its Diagnostic Manual in 1973. The year led to an important shift in mental health practices as clinicians stopped asking questions like “What causes homosexuality?” and “How can we change it?” and focused instead on the health and mental health needs of LGBTQ+ patient populations. Psychiatric diagnosing of homosexuality as a mental disorder began in the 19th century. Many psychiatrists including Sigmund Freud looked at homosexuality as psychological immaturity or illness. American psychiatry mostly ignored the growing body of sex research that saw homosexuality as normal. All this started changing in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. Finally, in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) -- the largest psychiatric organization in the world -- made history by issuing a resolution stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness or sickness
