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Robert Spitzer, influential US psychiatrist, dies aged 83
Source: BBC
Robert Spitzer, the influential American psychiatrist credited with establishing a modern classification of mental disorders, has died at the age of 83.
Dr Spitzer played a leading role in the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
He was also lauded for pushing to remove homosexuality's classification as a mental disorder in 1973.
Dr Spitzer's wife said he died from heart problems in Seattle on Friday.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35185138
27 December 2015 US & Canada
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Thank you for your contribution in understanding mental illness more effectively.
