RT Journal
A1 Bailey J
T1 HOmosexuality and mental illness
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1999
FD October 1
VO 56
IS 10
SP 883
OP 884
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.883
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.883
AB 
NO TOPIC has caused the field of psychiatry more controversy than homosexuality, and 2 articles in this issue of the ARCHIVES are likely to reopen past controversies and begin new ones.1- 2 These studies contain arguably the best published data on the association between homosexuality and psychopathology, and both converge on the same unhappy conclusion: homosexual people are at a substantially higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including suicidality, major depression, and anxiety disorder. Preliminary results from a large, equally well-conducted Dutch study3 generally corroborate these findings.