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Homosexuality was removed from the dsm system for classifying psychological disorders in 1973 as a psychological disorder because

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Homosexutality was removed from the dsm system as a psychological disorder in 1973 because it was no longer seen as a sociopathic personality disturbance (which it was a classified as in 1952) after several APA committees and deliberative bodies then reviewed and accepted the view that homosexuality was not a mental disorder.
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