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- Title
How Evelyn Hooker Rattled the APA.
- Authors
FENWICK, WENDY
- Abstract
The article focuses on Evelyn Hooker's groundbreaking research challenging the psychiatric establishment's view of homosexuality. Topics include the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) classification of homosexuality as a mental illness, Hooker's empirical investigation showing no link between homosexuality and maladjustment, and the impact of her findings on the removal of homosexuality from the DSM in 1973.
- Subjects
HOOKER, Evelyn, 1907-1996; HOMOSEXUALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; MENTAL illness; PSYCHOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 5, p20
- ISSN
1532-1118
- Publication type
Article