Homosexuality: III. Psychiatric Disorders and Disability in the Male Homosexual
MARCEL T. SAGHIR M.D.1,
ELI ROBINS M.D.2,
BONNIE WALBRAN 3, , and
KATHYE A. GENTRY 3
1 Fellow, department of epidemiology and medical statistics, London School of Hygiene and the social psychiatry research unit. Maudsley Hospital, London, England
2 Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry and head of the department, psychiatrist-in-chief, Barnes and Renard Hospitals, department of psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63110
3 Department of psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63110
There was little difference demonstrated in the prevalence of psychopathology between a group of 89 male homosexuals and a control group of 35 unmarried men. There was, however, slightly more disability and more clinically significant change in the lives of the homosexual men. Despite the slight increase in disability and the changes in their lives, the homosexual men functioned well.
