Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a cure and ... become normal again." The pamphlet taught that church leaders may assist gay members by reciting scripture; appealing to their reason; encouraging them to abandon gay lovers and associates; praying with them; and encouraging them to replace any sexual expression of their homosexual feelings with heterosexual expressions like opposite-sex dating. The pamphlet emphasized that "[h]omosexuality CAN be cured." In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association’s removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and in 1990 the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of disorders classified in the tenth edition of the International
Mental disorders in film Mental disorders in film Many films have portrayed mental disorders or used them as backdrops for other themes. This is a list of some of those films, sorted by disorder, regardless of whether or not the disorder is portrayed accurately. For instance, though "50 First Dates" presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not actually exist. Also, of the "mental disorders" listed below, "sadistic personality disorder", "self-injury", and "suicide"—while referring to undesirable "behaviors"—are "not" mental disorders recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual". Similarly, dissociative identity disorder, formerly called "multiple identity disorder", is one