Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis: Ronald Bayer: 9780691028378: Amazon.com: Books
Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis: Ronald Bayer: 9780691028378: Amazon.com: Books from review of: He summarizes, "The entire process, from the first confrontations organized by gay demonstrators at psychiatric conventions to the referendum demanded by orthodox psychiatrists, seemed to violate the most basic expectations about how questions of science should be resolved. Instead of being engaged in a sober consideration of data, psychiatrists were swept up in a political controversy... The result was not a conclusion based on the approximation of a scientific truth as dictated by reason, but was an action demanded by the ideological temper of the times." (Pg. 3-4)