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DSM-IV-TR and the upcoming DSM-V

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Thought I would start a thread about this because it came up in another thread, and it seemed some people had interest in it. I really haven't looked into this, but just tried to find the most resent information on it.

I know some people were concerned about being off the OP of the thread they were in, so I thought if they really wanted to discuss it they could do that here. If not no biggy, was just trying to help.

DSM-IV-TR on gender identity "disorder"
Some mental health trade groups currently consider women in our community to be mentally ill. It was not long ago that they also considered homosexuality a mental illness, and it took many years for academics and political activists to debunk all the bogus "science" and get this changed.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Subsequently, a new diagnosis, "ego-dystonic homosexuality," was created for the DSM's third edition in 1980. This meant someone who had "distress" about their sexual orientation.
Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D. writes:
"The new diagnostic category, however, was criticized professionally on numerous grounds. It was viewed by many as a political compromise to appease those psychiatrists – mainly psychoanalysts – who still considered homosexuality a pathology. Others questioned the appropriateness of having a separate diagnosis that described the content of an individual's dysphoria. They argued that the psychological problems related to ego-dystonic homosexuality could be treated as well by other general diagnostic categories, and that the existence of the diagnosis perpetuated antigay stigma."
In 1986, the diagnosis was removed entirely from the DSM. The only vestige of "ego-dystonic homosexuality" in the revised DSM-III occurred under "Sexual Disorders Not Otherwise Specified," which included persistent and marked distress about one's sexual orientation.
The DSM 4th Edition (DSM-IV) was published in 1994, followed in 2000 by the DSM IV, Text Revision, or DSM-IV-TR. These editions include "transvestic fetishism" and "gender identity disorder" (GID) as disorders.
As Katherine Wilson, Ph.D. notes:
"Recent revisions of the DSM have made these diagnostic categories increasingly ambiguous, conflicted and overinclusive... The result is that a widening segment of gender non-conforming youth and adults are potentially subject to diagnosis of psychosexual disorder, stigma and loss of civil liberty."
The upcoming fight to depathologize gender variance
According to my sources, http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/g/gardner/gardner100602.htmthe DSM-V committees are scheduled to start meeting in 2006, and the projected date of publication of DSM-V is 2010.
For an excellent overview on the DSM's role in pathologizing sexual orientation, check out Facts About Homosexuality and Mental Health on the UC Davis website. There are many similarities in the way psychology views our condition, and it will be useful in creating a long-term strategy for working with progressive psychologists.
See Depathologizing gender identity by Welley Winters, Ph.D. for more on this.

http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/gender-identity-disorder.html
 

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That's great news. I think it would be demoralizing to someone if they were pointed out as a disease infested person because of sin. It's not a disease. It's sin. It's no more a disease than someone's problem with alchohol addiction, or lying, etc.

The problem is, how close is the DSM-V committee to God? They can declassify homosexuality from a disease all they want, but it's still a sin.
 
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That's great news. I think it would be demoralizing to someone if they were pointed out as a disease infested person because of sin. It's not a disease. It's sin. It's no more a disease than someone's problem with alchohol addiction, or lying, etc.

The problem is, how close is the DSM-V committee to God? They can declassify homosexuality from a disease all they want, but it's still a sin.


:thumbsup: :amen:
 
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Myths from the 1800s, like homosexuality, don't belong in the DSM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_...al_orientation

Kinsey himself avoided and disapproved of using terms like homosexual or heterosexual to describe individuals, asserting that sexuality is prone to change over time, and that sexual behavior can be understood both as physical contact as well as purely psychological phenomena (desire, sexual attraction, fantasy).

Instead of three categories (heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual), an eight-category system was used. The Kinsey scale ranked sexual behavior from 0 to 6, with 0 being completely heterosexual and 6 completely homosexual.

"Homosexual" is a concept from the late 1800s and it appears to be out of date:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosex...logy_and_usage


The first known appearance of homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny, published anonymously.[8]

The prevalence of the concept owes much to the work of the German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and his 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis.[9]

As such, the current use of the term has its roots in the broader 19th century tradition of personality taxonomy. These continue to influence the development of the modern concept of sexual orientation, gaining associations with romantic love and identity in addition to its original, exclusively sexual meaning.

The word "homosexual" was developed to describe a pathological condition.
 
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The problem is, how close is the DSM-V committee to God? They can declassify homosexuality from a disease all they want, but it's still a sin.

Your personal beliefs aren't facts.
 
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