In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Paperbackby Regina G. Kunzel (Author) A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender variant people. In the mid twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and