Tops & Bottoms

Gay Place blogger Jordan weighs in with individual lists

"...and Catholicism have in common on the TV series American Horror Story...."

Jan. 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Jordan Gass-Pooré

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...March 25, Dr. James Scully, medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, testified to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...Welcome to the future of psychiatric care: low lights, an old massage table, and three..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

The AggreGAYtor: August 21

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• The American Psychiatric Association petition for better access to transition care...."

Aug. 21, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Death Watch: Mark Soliz Hopes One Stay Leads to Another

Death row inmate argues fetal alcohol spectrum disorder renders him unfit for execution

"...argues, as did Johnson, that recent changes to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders..."

Sept. 6, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

A Parliament of Experts

Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?

"...examined. After he was expelled in 1995 from the American Psychiatric Association and the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Another Anti-Pot Presidential Appointment?

Obama's reported pick to head the transition at the ONDCP is a medi-pot foe.

"...1998-2000 tenure with that office. In 1999 he told Psychiatric News (a journal of the American Psychiatric Association) that..."

Nov. 24, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Row Dilemma

Resistant to Change

"...friends and family members, a letter from a church association representing 10,000 Texas congregations, and several missives from doctors..."

Jan. 22, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Courage of Dawnna Dukes

State representative discredits claims that abortion leads to mental health problems

"...just as repeatedly discredited by major medical organizations (the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American..."

Sept. 26, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

In Response to Anti-Choice Claims, Rep. Dawnna Dukes Makes Abortion Public

Dukes counters abortion "mistruth" with personal admission

"...widely discredited by major medical organizations such as the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the American..."

Sept. 22, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Qmmunity: "We Are Here, We Are Queer, and We're on a Deadline."

"...LGBTQIA journalists (and their allies) from the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists' student chapter at UT-Austin. Although there..."

April 23, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Tex Dem Platform Rejects GOP on Gays

Dems slam GOP for encouraging 'violence' against LGBTQ souls

"...invalidated and denounced by major health organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization, and the American..."

July 2, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

GOP Marches Backward

2014 Texas platform veers hard right

"...community, and deemed unethical by professional organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association. There's also..."

June 13, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Having Your Baby

The anti-choice "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" are spending taxpayer funds on misinformation, scare tactics – or nothing

"...medically accurate. Abortion does not cause infertility; neither the American Psychological Association nor the American Psychiatric Association recognizes "post-abortion..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Feel-Good Generations

There's a reason scholar Rachel Maines, the author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction has survived the various assualts on her intellectual freedom: She's smart, she's funny, and she also "dances circles around reactionary clod-like thinking."

"...morning, thanks to my mother, two members of the American Civil Liberties Union were waiting for Robbins to explain..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Lindsey Lane

Smart Enough to Die

In 2002, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. Still, Texas finds a way.

"...basic trifecta of conditions – enumerated by the more-than-a-century-old American Assoc­i­a­tion on Intellectual and Devel­op­ment­al Disabilities and by the..."

April 19, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Apology Demanded

"...get off saying that because I voted for one African-American man instead of him that I'm a racist? Where's..."

June 13, 1997 Column

We Have an Issue: Another Day of Gun Violence in America

Do gun owners honestly think we don't have a problem here?

"...documentary Cured, about the campaign that ultimately led the American Psychiatric Association to remove "homosexuality" from its list of..."

April 23, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Digging Into Queer History in Cured

Doc explores fight to de-list homosexuality as mental illness

"...the 1973 activist campaign to remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses...."

April 21, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Bobby Moore Will Not Be Executed

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has commuted his sentence

"...ruling and adopted the framework set forth in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual (the DSM-5), the state’s highest..."

Nov. 6, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Expert Opinion

Appeal alleges Dr. Death perjured himself at killer's trial

"...by a prosecutor. He was eventually expelled by the American Psychiatric Association for his unethical conduct, though prosecutors continued..."

April 4, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

2012 Was Tops

Gay Place blogger Andy weighs in with individual lists

"...not diagnosed with a disorder, just for LIVING. The American Psychiatric Association also took a stance on transgender care..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Gay Place: Tops & Bottoms

Tops? Hell, the Gay Place like Tops and Bottoms. Who's on Top? Who's on Bottom? How can we pick just 10?

"..."TRANSGENDER" NO LONGER A MENT­AL DISORDER according to the American Psychiatric Association...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

The AggreGAYtor: December 4

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• The American Psychiatric Association removes “gender identity disorder” from the DSM-V..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: July 26

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• The American Psychiatric Association reconsiders classification of transgender individuals...."

July 26, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The New Evolution

Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?

"...problematic, simply may not meet the criteria for an American Psychiatric Association definition of addiction. "Addiction is behavior that..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Report Calls for Texas Death Penalty Reform

And people in hell want ice water

"...aka Dr. Death, who was twice reprimanded by the American Psychiatric Association before being expelled from its membership in..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Slow Burn

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

"...professor Alan Stone -- a former head of the American Psychiatric Association -- to say that David Koresh was..."

May 2, 1997 Screens Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"...is threatening to acquire epidemic dimensions. More than 30,000 Americans die by their own hand every year. Another 500,000..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Books Review by John H. Summers

Opinion: Consider Health Care When You Vote

Texas Nurses for Biden urge support of Biden / Harris ticket

"...Harris for president and vice president. We believe that Americans have a choice on the ballot this year between..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Column by Lorraine L. Papa

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