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From elusiveself.wordpress.com - June 28, 2012 5:39 PM

Next year the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual (DSM) will be revised into its 5th edition. It may have a dull moniker, but the DSM is more than a medical handbook. Central to its construction are the prevailing winds of societal attitudes – consider that as late as the 1973 homosexuality was still labeled a mental disorder.