Sentences with phrase «homosexuality as a mental disorder»

Therefore, these mainstream organizations long ago abandoned classifications of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

On the basis of that study and others demonstrating that the original classification reflected social stigma rather than science, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973.

The American Psychological Association passed a resolution in 1975 supporting the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, stating: «The research on homosexuality is very clear.

It is not illegal to be gay in China, although the country regarded homosexuality as a mental disorder until 2001.

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Just last month the American Psychiatric Association, voting on a recommendation from its board of trustees, dropped homosexuality as such from its list of mental disorders.

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

CAMFT endorses the American Psychiatric Association's Position Statement on Psychiatric Treatment and Sexual Orientationvii, and opposes ``... any psychiatric treatment, such as reparative or conversion therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that the patient should change his or her homosexual orientation.»