Question

In 1973 homosexuality was removed from the dsm as a psychological disorder. this was at a time when high-energy children were not classified, as they now are, as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. what do these changes to the dsm categories suggest about psychological abnormality?

Answer 1

diagnosis used to describe individuals whose compulsive masturbation supposedly drove them mad,homosexuality classified as mental illness until removed in ... perspective where mental disorders don't all have one thing in common, but overlap enough in their features that they're recognized as having amental disorder