" However, Kenneth Zucker and Robert Spitzer argue that GID was included in the DSM-III ( 7 years after homosexuality was removed from the DSM-II ) because it " met the generally accepted criteria used by the framers of DSM-III for inclusion ".

The DSM-II ( 1968 ) continued to use the term " sexual deviations ", but no longer ascribed them under personality disorders, but rather them alongside them in a broad category titled " personality disorders and certain other nonpsychotic mental disorders ".

* 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13 – 0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

Both the DSM-I and the DSM-II reflected the predominant psychodynamic psychiatry, although they also included biological perspectives and concepts from Kraepelin's system of classification.

Presented with data from researchers such as Alfred Kinsey and Evelyn Hooker, the seventh printing of the DSM-II, in 1974, no longer listed homosexuality as a category of disorder.

The DSM-5 will then be closer to the DSM-I and DSM-II than to their successors, which all were at least trying to separate the concept of " mental disorder " from cultural norms, and which made " harm " or " distress " a necessary condition for having a mental disorder.

* December 15 – Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.

In 1965 a new task force of 10 people developed DSM-II, published in 1968.

Schizoaffective disorder was included as a subtype of schizophrenia in DSM-I and DSM-II, though research showed a schizophrenic cluster of symptoms in individuals with a family history of mood disorders whose illness course, other symptoms and treatment outcome were otherwise more akin to bipolar disorder than to schizophrenia.

OCPD was first included in DSM-II, and was in large based on Sigmund Freud's notion of the obsessive personality or anal-erotic character style characterized by orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy.

* 15 — The board of the American Psychiatric Association votes 13 – 0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

DSM-II labelled ‘ excessive ’ behavioral and emotional response as an index of abnormal mental wellness to diagnose some particular disorders.

The consideration of proportionality to stimuli was a perceived strength in psychiatric diagnosis for the DSM-II.

Another characteristic of the DSM-II systemization was that it classified of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Homosexuality was later replaced in the 7th edition of DSM-II, instead categorized as a ‘ Sexual orientation disturbance .’ The intent was to have a label that applied only to those homosexual individuals who were bothered by their sexual orientation.

This stigma lasted into DSM-II until it was reformed entirely from DSM classifications in 1986.

DSM-III was a best attempt to credit psychiatry as a scientific discipline, from the opprobrium resulting from DSM-II.

A reduction in the psychodynamic etiologies of DSM-II spilled over into a reduction symptom etiology altogether.

This had supposedly injected normality consideration back into the DSM, from its removal from DSM-II.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

As used in this Act, the term ' saline water ' includes sea water, brackish water, and other mineralized or chemically charged water, and the term ' United States ' extends to and includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

The term soon became used and applied to all stolen animals.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

When used in the broader sense, the term can include many different groups.

The term was initially used generally as an adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters.

Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".

Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.

Hindu texts used the term shunya ( zero ) to indicate the empty column on the abacus.

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

The term " alphabet " is used by linguists and paleographers in both a wide and a narrow sense.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

Between 1968 and 1980 the term that was used for dissocative identity disorder was " Hysterical neurosis, dissociative type ".