In this episode, we bring you the recording of a virtual panel discussion about the documentary "CURED". "CURED" highlights a pivotal moment in the APA's history, and the fight for LGBTQ equality, when activists and psychiatrists challenged the DSM classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. Listen as writer, journalist, and recipient of the APA's 2021 Patient Advocacy Award Jacki Lyden; the film's co-director, Patrick Sammon; CEO and Medical Director of the APA, Dr. Saul Levin; medical journalist and psychiatry fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Jack Turban; and one of our podcast hosts, Archivist and Librarian at the APA Foundation, Deena Gorland talk about the making of the documentary, how history is on the brink of repeating itself with the transgender community, and the direction psychiatry is going in. Watch the award-winning documentary on PBS airing on October 11, 2021, National Coming Out Day, and showing throughout October.
