While Freud himself may have come to a more accepting view of homosexuality, his legacy in the field of psychoanalysisespecially in the United States viewed homosexuality as negative, abnormal and caused by family and developmental issues. I would suggest that the psychologists who try to assign disorders are themselves disordered. The simple fact is that all "Mental disorders" are arbitrary in their diagnosis. Category Portal. However, the evolution in scientific study and empirical data from Kinsey, Evelyn Hooker and others confronted these beliefs, and by the s psychiatrists and psychologists were radically altering their views on homosexuality. Happy Holidays.
Late in his life, Freud expressed pessimism about the possibility of effecting a sexual conversion in most people.
Psychiatrists began to believe homosexuality could be cured through therapy and freedom of self, and other theories about the genetic and hormonal origin of homosexuality were becoming accepted. Hooker, E. So if having different sexual desires is considered OK for the "LGBT" how would that be any different than people who like having sex with children, animals, or anything else that is considered out of the norm?
They argued that the psychological problems related to ego-dystonic homosexuality could be treated as well by other general diagnostic categories, and that the existence of the diagnosis perpetuated antigay stigma.
