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Reaction to the APA decision from Harvard psychiatrists and psychologists was mixed. Dr. Preston K. Munter, chief of psychiatry at University Health Services, yesterday praised the action...
...commend the move highly," Munter said. "The APA just acknowledged a fact that we've known for years...
Munter credited pressure from homosexual organizations for the APA decision...
...However, APA leaders insisted that pressure from homosexual groups was not a factor in the trustees' vote...
...Saturday press conference in Washington following the decision, Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, attempted to clarify the APA vote. "We're not saying that homosexuality is either 'normal' or 'abnormal'," he said. "We're saying that homosexuality per se is not a psychiatric disorder...