I was just doing some homework and found this interesting. I'm reading the current edition of Kaplan and Sadock's 'Synopsis of Psychiatry,' one of the 'Bibles' of psychiatric methodology and treatment, and I found this entry under Psychiatric Emergencies.
"Homosexual Panic: Not seen in men or women who are comfortable with their sexual orientation; occurs in those who adamantly deny having any homoerotic impulses; impulses are aroused by talk, a physical overture, or play among same-sex friends, such as wrestling, sleeping together, or touching each other in a shower or hot tub; panicked person sees others as sexually interested in him or her and defends against them.
Treatment Issues: Ventilation, environmental structuring, and, in some cases, medication for acute panic or antipsychotics may be required; opposite sex clinicians should evaluate the patient, whenever possible, and the patient should not be touched save for the routine examination; patients have attacked physicians who were examining an abdomen or performing a rectal exam (e.g., on a man who harbors thinly veiled unintegrated homosexual impulses)."
Not too shocking, really. All of us basically knew the guys who freak out about this are actually gay, and psychiatry has known it all along...
Homosexual panic as a psychiatric emergency! (Closet types)
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Enter any nightclub or high school in central Alberta and invoke a dispute with some local barstar strutter. If he dosen't start gnashing his teeth, foaming at the mouth, clenching his fists and turning red with rage as he hyperventilates the single phrase "FAGGIT" over and over like a mantra of fury, I will personally chop my own balls off. I've seen this sort of thing personally, and it's good to know it has the distinction of this kind of entry.
Agreed. Go to any evangelical church and bring up the topic. That's where I've seen it.TithonusSyndrome wrote:Enter any nightclub or high school in central Alberta and invoke a dispute with some local barstar strutter. If he dosen't start gnashing his teeth, foaming at the mouth, clenching his fists and turning red with rage as he hyperventilates the single phrase "FAGGIT" over and over like a mantra of fury, I will personally chop my own balls off. I've seen this sort of thing personally, and it's good to know it has the distinction of this kind of entry.
It's too bad that most people can't just live life and be comfortable with who they are...
