Psykiatriska diagnoser kan inte jämföras med fysiska diagnoser. Har antagligen aldrig hänt i modern tid att en vanligt förekommande fysisk sjukdom plötsligt totalt bortdefinieras till att inte alls existera. Ett annat märkligt exempel är personlighetsstörningar som psykopati som i princip har fått helt nya definitioner och kriterier varje gång ett ny diagnosmanual har släppts. Vidare har psykiatriska diagnoser ofta varit starkt ideologiskt influerade utan någon vetenskaplig grund som när tidigare pseudovetenskapliga psykoanalytiska synsätt var vanligt förekommande i diagnoserna.
Lite länkar med kritik beträffande beslutet att plötsligt deklarera att homosexualitet inte är en sjukdom. Kanske förvånande var detta till stor del beroende på lobbying av homolobbyn och inklusive omfattande lögnaktig lobbying när amerikanska psykiatriker i allmänhet (utan något krav på att ha forskarkunskap eller expertkunskap om homosexualitet) fascinerade nog
röstade för att besluta om homosexualitet är en sjukdom eller inte och "nej-sidan" "vann" med 55% av rösterna:
"in 1970 gay activists protested against the APA convention in San Francisco. These scenes were repeated in 1971, and as people came out of the “closet” and felt empowered politically and socially, the APA directorate became increasingly uncomfortable with their stance...What’s noteworthy about this is that the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses was not triggered by some scientific breakthrough. There was no new fact or set of facts that stimulated this major change. Rather, it was the simple reality that gay people started to kick up a fuss. They gained a voice and began to make themselves heard. And the APA reacted with truly astonishing speed...
...Only about 55% of the members who voted favored the change...So all the people who had this terrible “illness” were “cured” overnight – by a vote! I remember as a boy reading of the United Nations World Health Organization’s decision to eradicate smallpox. This was in 1967, and by 1977, after a truly staggering amount of work, the disease was a thing of the past. Why didn’t they just take a vote?"
http://www.behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2011/10/08/homosexuality-the-mental-illness-that-went-away/
"the APA stopped considering homosexuality as a mental disorder after prolonged social agitation and professional conflict. Homosexuals disrupted APA meetings and harassed psychiatrists. For instance, psychiatrist Nelson Borelli was at the 1972 APA convention, and noted the following:
...I was there in San Francisco at the 1972 APA convention when the “Gay and Lesbian” activists forced the APA leadership to promise to drop “Homosexuality” from the diagnostic manual or else there would be no APA Convention. Not only the scandal they were causing, but the activists had gained control of the infrastructure of the convention building. The APA kept the promise...
...The APA's Committee on Nomenclature decided to remove homosexuality from the DSM in 1973. It gave opponents 15 minutes to present a rebuttal. The APA membership can overrule committee decisions even on scientific matters. Some voices appealed to the APA membership. Homosexual activists quickly purchased the APA mailing list after the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) sent out a fund-raising appeal to its members, and then drafted a letter, got it signed by some psychiatrists, and sent it to over 30,000 APA members urging them to vote to retain the nomenclature change. The letter deliberately avoided mention that the NGTF had written and distributed it. All psychiatrist signatories publicly denied any role in the cunning move by the NGTF. Only a third of the APA membership responded, but most voted to support the nomenclature change, and the decision of the Board of Trustees was allowed to stand.
Clearly, the decision did not reflect how most psychiatrists viewed homosexuality then. Besides, some methods used then to prove that homosexuals are as well-adjusted as heterosexuals, such as the Rorschach test, which involves interpretations of ink-blot patterns, are so ludicrous that no self-respecting psychiatrist would use them today.
Homosexuality was declassified in two phases. At first, ego-syntonic homosexuality was removed as a diagnosis; ego syntonic refers to comfortable with orientation. A couple of years later, ego-dystonic homosexuality (not comfortable with homosexual orientation) was also removed as a diagnosis; it was assumed (not proven) that discomfort with own same-sex attraction was a result of internalizing societal homophobia."
http://www.homosexinfo.org/Psychiatry/Psychotherapists