{"id":190,"date":"2021-09-08T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkersiebenschuh-history-historicpreservation.org\/?p=241"},"modified":"2021-09-08T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:31:49","slug":"brief-overview-of-how-homosexuality-was-treated-by-asylum-doctors-and-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/histmental2021\/brief-overview-of-how-homosexuality-was-treated-by-asylum-doctors-and-attendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Overview of How Homosexuality was \u201cTreated\u201d by Asylum Doctors and Attendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/shock-the-gay-away-secrets-of-early-gay-aversion-therapy-revealed_b_3497435\">https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/shock-the-gay-away-secrets-of-early-gay-aversion-therapy-revealed_b_3497435<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my project I chose to cover the history of male homosexuality when it was both viewed and defined as a mental illness in the United States. Above is a link to a brief article that discusses the history of shock therapy among other &#8220;treatment&#8221; methods for &#8220;Sexual deviancy&#8221; or more accurately homosexuality. The article discusses how up until 1973 homosexuality was viewed as a mental illness by the APA. Within the article  you will also find a variety of images relating to how homosexuality was viewed as a mental illness by the general public at that time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/shock-the-gay-away-secrets-of-early-gay-aversion-therapy-revealed_b_3497435 For my project I chose to cover the history of male homosexuality when it was both viewed and defined as a mental illness in the United States. Above is a link to a brief article that discusses the history of shock therapy among other \u201ctreatment\u201d methods for \u201cSexual deviancy\u201d or more accurately homosexuality. The \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/parkersiebenschuh-history-historicpreservation.org\/uncategorized\/brief-history-of-shock-aversion-therapy-to-treat-homosexuality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brief Overview of How Homosexuality was \u201cTreated\u201d by Asylum Doctors and Attendants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histmental2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}