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*What makes a medical disorder mental rather than (exclusively) somatic or physical? Psychiatry to some extent depends for its existence as a medical specialty on the distinction between mental and somatic disorders, yet the history of this distinction presents a bewildering array of puzzling judgments, radical shifts, and seemingly arbitrary distinctions. The historical observation that putative mental disorders are often reclassified as physical disorders as soon as their physiologic basis is understood further confuses matters. Moreover, recent debates about such classifications often seem to reflect desires to protect professional turf or obtain optimal reimbursement for treatment more than they do the application of a coherent conceptual distinction.  [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/v013/13.2wakefield.html]

*What makes a medical disorder mental rather than (exclusively) somatic or physical? Psychiatry to some extent depends for its existence as a medical specialty on the distinction between mental and somatic disorders, yet the history of this distinction presents a bewildering array of puzzling judgments, radical shifts, and seemingly arbitrary distinctions. The historical observation that putative mental disorders are often reclassified as physical disorders as soon as their physiologic basis is understood further confuses matters. Moreover, recent debates about such classifications often seem to reflect desires to protect professional turf or obtain optimal reimbursement for treatment more than they do the application of a coherent conceptual distinction.  [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/v013/13.2wakefield.html]

**It turns out homosexuality was not eliminted by the APA as a mental illness in 1973, it was downgrades to "sexual orientation disturbance". <ref>Mayes, R. & Horwitz, AV. (2005) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15981242 DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness]. J Hist Behav Sci 41(3):249-67. </ref>

**It turns out homosexuality was not eliminted by the APA as a mental illness in 1973, it was downgraded to "sexual orientation disturbance". <ref>Mayes, R. & Horwitz, AV. (2005) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15981242 DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness]. J Hist Behav Sci 41(3):249-67. </ref>

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