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Lucy Simpson

Lucy Simpson
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I am a published poet, poetry teacher and novice photographer struggling to feed my family healthfully. My challenge to myself is to integrate my writing and art into cooking. So here you have one thousand days and nights of Chinese Cooking!

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Salon.com
OCTOBER 23, 2011 5:21PM

One Psychiatrist Against the APA

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I had been filling out the paperwork for twenty minutes, a cramp in my right hand, when I came to the section about family psychiatric history.
I meticulously went down the rows of disorders, having to circle way too many of them.  After alcoholism, which my family has a long and painful history with, was listed homosexuality. 

 

Family Psychiatric History

 I could remind myself that I am dealing with a psychiatrist in Colorado, where people's minds seem narrower.  This is the land of Focus on the Family and New Life Church, which thrives despite their deposed male-prostitute ****ing leader.  

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders.  It seems this psychiatrist is providing outdated information.  

I don't usually get angry.  I've met bigots, but when someone is in a professional capacity and shows bigotry, something must be done.  I hate to think of this psychiatrist tinkering around in the minds of others.   

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I wonder if it's still listed in the DSM...would think not. This guy should be reprimanded formally.