Judd Marmor. Psychiatrist who changed the view of homosexuality as a mental disorder
J.Hopkins Tanne
When Judd Marmor's patients didn't fit the textbook theory that homosexuality was an illness, he thought perhaps the theory was wrong.In 1973, as a prominent and heterosexual psychiatrist, he became a leader in the struggle that led to the removal of the definition of homosexuality as an illness from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, changing a position it had held for nearly a century. The following year he was elected president of the association, one of many posts he held during a long career.
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eng [Engels]
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Judd Marmor. Psychiatrist who changed the view of homosexuality as a mental disorder
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18 [Tijdschriftartikel]
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Janice Hopkins Tanne
Annotatie
In: BMJ; vol./jrg.:
Bibliografische annotatie - Publicatiedata
328 (2004), nr. 7437 (21 feb), pp. 466
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Hopkins Tanne
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J.
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gb
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When Judd Marmor's patients didn't fit the textbook theory that homosexuality was an illness, he thought perhaps the theory was wrong., In 1973, as a prominent and heterosexual psychiatrist, he became a leader in the struggle that led to the removal of the definition of homosexuality as an illness from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, changing a position it had held for nearly a century. The following year he was elected president of the association, one of many posts he held during a long career.
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