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[[Image:Kupelianbookcover220.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|The book ''[[The Marketing of Evil]]'' by [[David Kupelian]] describes how [[Harvard]]-educated [[marketing]] professionals Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen were able to change some American's perceptions regarding [[homosexuality]].]]

[[Image:Kupelianbookcover220.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|The book ''[[The Marketing of Evil]]'' by [[David Kupelian]] describes how [[Harvard]]-educated [[marketing]] professionals Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen were able to change some American's perceptions regarding [[homosexuality]].]]

'''Zapping the Shrinks'''<ref name="Rainbow">{{cite web |author= Mark Meinke |title=Zapping the Shrinks, May 3, 1971

'''Zapping the Shrinks'''<ref name="Rainbow">{{cite web |author= Mark Meinke |title=Zapping the Shrinks, May 3, 1971

|publisher= The Rainbow History Project : Preserving Our Community's Memories |url=http://www.rainbowhistory.org/html/apazap.htm |accessdate=June 21, 2013|quote= Earlier in April, the newly formed Gay Activists Alliance/DC (GAA), the Gay Liberation Front-DC (GLF) and the Mattachine Society of Washington had laid plans for a major zap of the APA's Convocation.  Perry Brass recalls (in his Come Out article chronicling Gay MayDay and the zap) that six members of GAA were given copies of the statement to be read to the psychiatrists following the disruption of the convocation. …... [Following the GayMayDay demonstrations] About thirty people from the GayMayDay Tribe including several members of the Washington commune [GLF House, 1620 S St. NW, Washington, DC] piled into a VW van and a few cars and headed for the [hotel].  Half of the men were in really fabulous drag with wildly painted faces, that accentuated the spontaneous, liberating attitude of brothers in drag ..."…Dr. Kameny recalls "At that point they were afraid to say no to us.  So they said yes."}}</ref> is the anti-scientific method used by the proponents of [[totalitarian]] [[LGBT]] ideology for influencing the decision-making process of American Psychiatric Association ([[American Psychiatric Association|APA]]) that  finally lead to removal of homosexuality from the [[DSM|Diagnostic and Statistical Manual]]'s list of mental disorders after the Board of the APA  voting on December 15, 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Homosexuality: Open Letter to Christie |chapter=An inexact science |author=Terry A. Hurlbut |publisher=Conservative News and Views |date=Ausgust 24, 2013  |accessdate=September 9, 2013 |url=http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2013/08/24/family/homosexuality-open-letter-governor-christie/ |quote=In fact, the APA made their 1973 decision, only after active, practicing homosexuals gained a majority in the APA and took over the editorship of the DSM. Determined as they were never to change, they declared that they, and others like them, weren’t sick. They grudgingly admitted some people didn’t like that tendency. Then in 1987 they struck the phrase “ego-dystonic homosexuality” from their catalog of mental illness. (The International Classification of Disease still lists it. Or did, as of this publication.)}}</ref> As [[Frank Kameny]], the leader of the movement that included the coercive actions and attacks on APA conferences with wildly painted faces and disrupting the proceedings, put it: ''"At that point they were afraid to say no to us. So they said yes."''<ref name="Rainbow"/>

|publisher= The Rainbow History Project : Preserving Our Community's Memories |url=http://www.rainbowhistory.org/html/apazap.htm |accessdate=June 21, 2013|quote= Earlier in April, the newly formed Gay Activists Alliance/DC (GAA), the Gay Liberation Front-DC (GLF) and the Mattachine Society of Washington had laid plans for a major zap of the APA's Convocation.  Perry Brass recalls (in his Come Out article chronicling Gay MayDay and the zap) that six members of GAA were given copies of the statement to be read to the psychiatrists following the disruption of the convocation. …... [Following the GayMayDay demonstrations] About thirty people from the GayMayDay Tribe including several members of the Washington commune [GLF House, 1620 S St. NW, Washington, DC] piled into a VW van and a few cars and headed for the [hotel].  Half of the men were in really fabulous drag with wildly painted faces, that accentuated the spontaneous, liberating attitude of brothers in drag ..."…Dr. Kameny recalls "At that point they were afraid to say no to us.  So they said yes."}}</ref> is the anti-scientific method used by the proponents of [[totalitarian]] [[LGBT]] ideology for influencing the decision-making process of American Psychiatric Association ([[American Psychiatric Association|APA]]) that  finally lead to removal of homosexuality from the [[DSM|Diagnostic and Statistical Manual]]'s list of mental disorders after the Board of the APA  voting on December 15, 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Homosexuality: Open Letter to Christie |chapter=An inexact science |author=Terry A. Hurlbut |publisher=Conservative News and Views |date=Ausgust 24, 2013  |accessdate=September 9, 2013 |url=http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2013/08/24/family/homosexuality-open-letter-governor-christie/ |quote=In fact, the APA made their 1973 decision, only after active, practicing homosexuals gained a majority in the APA and took over the editorship of the DSM. Determined as they were never to change, they declared that they, and others like them, weren’t sick. They grudgingly admitted some people didn’t like that tendency. Then in 1987 they struck the phrase “ego-dystonic homosexuality” from their catalog of mental illness. (The International Classification of Disease still lists it. Or did, as of this publication.)}}</ref><ref name="Mohler2015">{{cite book |title=We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong |author=R. Albert Mohler, Jr. |publisher=Harper Collins |year=2015 |pages=40-1 |isbn=978-07180-32487 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jNhhCAAAQBAJ |quote= ...the "zap" approach continues even now, ...}}</ref> As [[Frank Kameny]], the leader of the '[[gay]]' movement that included the coercive actions and attacks on APA conferences with wildly painted faces and disrupting the proceedings, put it: ''"At that point they were afraid to say no to us. So they said yes."''<ref name="Rainbow"/> The "zap"-tactics pioneered by prominent homosexual advocates was later employed by [[ACT-UP]] [[pressure group]] in the 1980s.<ref name="EISENBACH2006"/> The "zap" approach continues even now, shutting down any moral discussion on homosexuality and homosexual relationships within the context of the American Psychiatric Association.<ref name="Mohler2015"/>     

In broader sense, 'Zapping the Shrinks' represents attempts, typically made by a [[pressure group]](s), for promoting own hidden agenda by means of coercive actions, political pressure, and underhanded and [[Psychological manipulation|manipulative]] methods, under the fig leaf of 'science'. Where 'Zapping the Shrinks' approach prevails, the free, unbiased and open [[scientific research]] as well as an open dialogue ends. It is replaced by totalitarian [[Cherry picking|cherry-picking]] the results and research that supports the hidden promoted agenda and any disturbing or [[Damning the Alternatives|unwelcome evidence is suppressed]]. Political stances begin to override any scientific data.<ref name="Cummings"/>    

In broader sense, 'Zapping the Shrinks' represents attempts, typically made by a [[pressure group]](s), for promoting own hidden agenda by means of coercive actions, political pressure, and underhanded and [[Psychological manipulation|manipulative]] methods, under the fig leaf of 'science'. Where 'Zapping the Shrinks' approach prevails, the free, unbiased and open [[scientific research]] as well as an open dialogue ends. It is replaced by totalitarian [[Cherry picking|cherry-picking]] the results and research that supports the hidden promoted agenda and any disturbing or [[Damning the Alternatives|unwelcome evidence is suppressed]]. Political stances begin to override any scientific data.<ref name="Cummings"/>  

==Historical Background==

==Historical Background==