Talk:American Psychiatric Association

DSM-IV-TR Permissions Controversy
[This discussion might be interesting to anybody interested in,or knowledgable about, DSM-IV-TR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#DSM-IV-TR_Copyright_question --82.195.137.125 19:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)]

Expanded
I've expanded this article and removed the stub marker. EverSince 22:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:DSM-IV.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:DSM-IV.jpg
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Racism and support to eugenics
Decades ago, American Psychiatric Association gave full support to eugenics and racism.Eugenics sterilization had full support of this association, for many decades.The article article has nothing, about these supports.Agre22 (talk) 18:07, 21 May 2009 (UTC)agre22
 * Then add it yourself, don't expect other people to do it for you. 69.138.243.26 (talk) 00:38, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I was blocked many times doing thing such as your sugestion. In this site: [Kr] you can read at the end:

"A psychiatrist named Foster Kennedy gave an address to the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in 1941. In it, he strongly advocated not only for the forcible sterilization of the mentally retarded, but for killing them, especially if they fell below a certain functional level. Because he assumed that such individuals were in constant suffering and would be better off dead, he referred to this killing as euthanasia or mercy killing. His address was published in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association in July of 1942. In the same issue an opposing viewpoint by another psychiatrist, Leo Kanner, was also published, along with an editorial. While Kanner had no objection to sterilization, he did object to euthanasia. He also questioned the validity of assuming that people of low IQ would necessarily beget children who were also mentally deficient, but did not spend any time exploring the ramifications that would ensue for his philosophy if this were indeed the case. He believed that sterilization should be reserved only for those who could not perform useful work. He feared that stopping more functional people of low intelligence from reproducing might lead to a labor shortage in unskilled occupations which would adversely affect the functioning of society. Of note is the fact that by July of 1942, psychiatrists were already aware of what was going on in Germany. Kanner noted, “If [journalist and historian] William Shirer’s report is true – and there are reasons to believe that it is true – in Nazi Germany the Gestapo is now systematically bumping off the mentally deficient people of the Reich…”"Agre22 (talk) 19:08, 31 January 2010 (UTC)agre22

Possible new section
This line was removed from the disambuation page for Young Turks, as there is no mention of this here, the target article. Perhaps with some research this could be added to the article: ref is broken, but im leaving it here to help with research.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:17, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Young Turks, a group of members of the American Psychiatric Association which in the 1970s advocated against the classification of homosexuality as a disease in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
 * This American Life presented by Chicago Public Radio episode 204: 81 words Originally aired on 01.18.2002 accessdate 2007-05-23


 * I think Young Turks was used as a metaphor in that context. I don't think those psychiatrists called themselves that, or that they were a unitary/organized group, but I could be mistaken. There are some chapters in this book you may want to read. It doesn't say anything about Young Turks though. Tijfo098 (talk) 02:49, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Drug company ties
Nobody in their right mind would reject that some, if not most, researchers in psychiatry take grants from drug companies, (and some even fail to declare a conflict of interest thereafter), and that US clinicians go to some pimp CMEs, but that section is written like an anti-psychiatry pamphlet, with little logic gluing the sentences together to their inevitable conclusion. Looking at reviews of the main source, they hardly seem to conclude it's an unbiased or reliable source. Seriously, this blog is a more reliable source about such matters than W's book, and while you probably shouldn't cite the blog at all, the papers and mainstream media articles it cites are probably okay. But it's hard to draw conclusions about APA as a whole. Tijfo098 (talk) 02:44, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * P.S.: It looks like Carlat has a book out and an interview in NPR, ; perhaps it's time for Daniel Carlat? Tijfo098 (talk) 03:01, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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links to psych.org broken
hej. Those 2 Links to psych.org from the references section that I tried to follow ended up "page not found" (reference 8 and 9). Using the search on psych.org for e.g. "position statements" gave "no result". maybe someone knowing the new structure of psych.org can fix the references' links. thanks Pardon my German (Fiiiisch!) (talk) 17:28, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

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inclusion in controversy section or creatinv new section about removal of homosexuality from dsm III
I want to discuss about inclusion in controversy section or creating new section about removal of homosexuality from dsm III. Here are the references. "The former president of APA in 1987, Nicholas Cummings described the removal of homosexuality from DSM-III in 1973 as "The APA has permitted political correctness to triumph over science." He also added that, contemporary APA violated their own "Leona Tyler principle" which means "not to be influenced by politics in case of research and diagnosis" in removing homosexuality from DSM. Another former president of APA, Robert Perloff referred is as the willingness of many psychologists to trample patients rights to treatment in the interest of political correctness and added that making such choice unethical would deprive a patient of a treatment of choice because the threat of sanctions would eliminate any psychologist who engaged in such treatment. " Some other references describing the controversy from different point of views are:    This pdf 103.67.159.165 (talk) 12:07, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * As a historical note, there's nothing wrong with indicating that not all psychiatrists agreed with the 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM. But I don't believe it merits more than a sentence or two because it's not that notable at this point, particularly since conversion therapy has been unethical per the American Psychiatric Association for many years and the practice is illegal in many jurisdictions. I do not plan to add anything to the controversy section on this point, but you may certainly do so. Just make sure you are familiar with how to edit articles on Wikipedia. Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/his/him] 17:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This IP hopping editor has been beating this dead horse endlessly elsewhere. See Talk:American Psychological Association. Sundayclose (talk) 17:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, good to know. Thank you Sundayclose. And thanks for linking to the WP:STICK humorous essay - I hadn't seen that before. ;o) - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/his/him] 17:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also seems to be the same person (and different IP again) as here and on the talk page: Talk:Homosexuality and psychology Crossroads -talk- 01:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)