LGBTIA-related articles within British Psychological Society Journals: A review of the literature from 1941-2017

Jowett, Adam

doi:10.53841/bpssex.2020.11.1.9

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“…Psychology in the 1970s (Hegarty, 2018a). However, it was not until the 1980s that such shifts were evident in Britain (Jowett, 2018a). For example, Schofield had a degree in Psychology and was deeply interested in the causes and possible treatments for homosexuality, but his work did not find a place at this time in British Psychology.…”

Section: S To 1960s: the Law And The Psychologist As Expertmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…British Psychology began to increasingly recognize non-normative sex, gender, and sexuality as social rather than individual concerns. Jowett (2018a) found that sexuality became an object of study for social Psychology rather than for medical Psychology in British Psychology journals in the 1980s. This came about in the context of HIV/AIDS, which was conceptualized in public and professional discourses as both social and individual.…”

Section: S To 1998: Social Concerns and Institutional Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism: A British history of LGBTIQ psychology.

Hubbard

Griffiths

2019

American Psychologist

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This article charts the historical period from the 1950s to the 1990s, focusing on the role of Psychology in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in Britain. Psychology has been, and is, central to the social, legal, and medical understandings of biological sex and how best to understand diversity in gender and sexuality. Likewise, gay liberation and liberationist politics also had an effect on Psychology. For the 1950s to 1960s, we outline how psychologists influenced the law in relation to the Wolfenden Report (1957) and how expertise was centrally located within the 'psy' disciplines. Following this, in the 1960s to 1970s, activists began to challenge this expertise and became increasingly critical of pathologization and of 'treatments' for homosexuality. They did not reject Psychology wholesale, however, and some groups engaged with queer affirmative psychologists who had similar liberatory aims. Finally, for the 1980s to 1998, we highlight the establishment of the Lesbian and Gay Section of the British Psychological Society, which signaled institutional recognition of lesbian and gay psychologists. This is explored against a backdrop of a specific British history of HIV/AIDS and Section 28. The past 50 years have been a battleground of categories in which LGBTIQ people were conflated, compared, and confused. We demonstrate that psychologists (not all of whom adopted a pathologizing perspective), alongside politicians, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and activists, all played a role in the boundary-making practices of this period. Across this entangled history, we demonstrate varied and significant shifts in the legitimacy of professional and personal expertise. Public Significance StatementThis article presents a British history of LGBTIQ Psychology from 1954 to 1998. Within a complex landscape of law, social change, medicine, and activism, it recognizes the influence Psychology has had on the lives of LGBTIQ people, and vice versa. This history is important for contemporary Psychology, as LGBTIQ issues continue to be contested in Britain and further afield.

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Section: S To 1960s: the Law And The Psychologist As Expertmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: S To 1998: Social Concerns and Institutional Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism: A British history of LGBTIQ psychology.

Hubbard

Griffiths

2019

American Psychologist

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An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context

Davison,

Hubbard,

Marks

et al. 2024

Review of General Psychology

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From the 1950s, aversion therapy gained an international foothold as a behaviourist means to alter what was then considered ‘deviant’ behaviour. Using primary research by psychologists, psychiatrists and other clinical figures published in professional journals, recently published personal testimonies by those who underwent such ‘treatment’, and drawing on the latest historical research, this article maps aversion therapy practices used to ‘treat’ LGBTQ+ people in the UK, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. We outline our approach to this history and contextualise it by drawing attention to ongoing comparative issues of banning LGBT conversion therapy in the present. Next, we outline the emergence of aversion therapy internationally and identify historical ‘hotspot’ hospitals and universities in the UK, with the nation itself an international ‘hotspot’ for aversion. We then employ the case study of the 2022 report from the University of Birmingham, to demonstrate how such investigations of difficult pasts might be most effectively realised and highlight the potential for a ‘truth and reconciliation’ approach to this history. Finally, we call upon psy-organisations, university and research institutions, and other stakeholders to take this history seriously in effort to address past and ongoing harms enacted upon LGBTQ+ people.

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LGBTIA-related articles within British Psychological Society Journals: A review of the literature from 1941-2017

Cited by 2 publications

References 63 publications

Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism: A British history of LGBTIQ psychology.

Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism: A British history of LGBTIQ psychology.

An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context

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