Politically Correct Psychology

The Instapundit has an item on the politically correct winds blowing in the field of psychology:

FROM HOMOSEXUALITY AS MENTAL DISEASE to "extreme bias" against homosexuality as a mental disease, in just a few decades:


Mental health practitioners say they regularly confront extreme forms of racism, homophobia and other prejudice in the course of therapy, and that some patients are disabled by these beliefs. As doctors increasingly weigh the effects of race and culture on mental illness, some are asking whether pathological bias ought to be an official psychiatric diagnosis.

So when homosexuality was unpopular, it was a mental disorder. Now that it's popular, not liking it is a mental disorder. Evidence for either position? Not much. My diagnosis: How about we recognize a disorder consisting of turning intellectual fashions into pseudoscience? Seems like this is a case of "mental health" consisting largely of agreeing with whatever political opinions psychiatrists hold at a particular moment in time. Psychiatry, heal thyself.

Be careful what you believe. If you're out of the mainstream of political correctness, you just may be nuts!

If you want a real eye-opener about the current state of psychology/psychiatry, check out fellow SCBA blogger Stacy Harp's postings on a psychotherapy conference she recently attended.