Lest we forget, Psychiatry isn’t a science and has its roots in the most appalling forms of pseudo scientifific babble since it’s beginning. 8 years of education or no.
The DSM considered homosexuality an illness until 1973. That’s problematic because nothing really changed in our understanding of homosexuality. It just became more accepted culturally. That makes it hard to argue in favor of the strict scientific rigor of the DSM.
