TY  - JOUR
T1  - HOmosexuality and mental illness
AU  - Bailey J
Y1  - 1999/10/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.883
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 883
EP  - 884
VL  - 56
IS  - 10
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.883
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.10.883
ER  -