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The outcome of this revelation was that the APA scrubbed homosexuality from the new edition of the DSM—though traces remained in the diagnosis “Sexual Orientation Disturbance,” which described people distressed by their sexuality (which, frankly, was probably anyone who was gay during a time when it was considered criminal and ill).
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Susannah Cahalan (The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness)