In the 1950s and 1960s, Many Psychoanalysts, Working with Unhappy

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Essay

In the 1950s and 1960s, many psychoanalysts, working with unhappy gay men who had sought therapy, concluded that homosexuality was a mental illness. What violation of the scientific method were they committing?

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