In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life Harriet Fish Backus On Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve

a hit song covered by Barbara Streisand

Inside the school

alluding to a clue to a legendary lost treasure that’d long ago faded to the realm of myth

the rise of antisemitism

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life Harriet Fish Backus On Christmas EveA look at the history of psychiatrys foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender variant people. In the mid twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender variant people in the mid