History of Medicine
Nov 2014
Edward Shorter, PhD
The successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have not responded to changing American sexual practices and mores, instead pathologizing sexual behavior that its authors considered to be atypical and conflating innocuous behavior and harmful treatment of other people in its diagnostic categories.
Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(11):932-937. doi:
10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.11.mhst1-1411.