Yale: 'Treated' for Being Gay - Psychiatry's Mid-Century 'Fixes' for Homosexuality
June 05, 2024
June 05, 2024
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 5 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news:
By Lisa Prevost
In 2008, Regina Kunzel learned of an extraordinary collection of case files that had been salvaged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal institution for the mentally ill in Washington, D.C. These were records of people who had been in treatment with one of the hospital's psychiatrists, Benjamin Karpman, for being gay or gender-variant, primarily in the 1940s and '50 . . .
By Lisa Prevost
In 2008, Regina Kunzel learned of an extraordinary collection of case files that had been salvaged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal institution for the mentally ill in Washington, D.C. These were records of people who had been in treatment with one of the hospital's psychiatrists, Benjamin Karpman, for being gay or gender-variant, primarily in the 1940s and '50 . . .