--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Geez, does this ever end?
>
> --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj
> > <vajranatha@> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I was talking to a psychiatrist friend last night
> > and asked him
> > > about diagnoses of people you knew online for a
> > couple of years
> > > and if it would be possible to diagnose someone,
> > roughly, based
> > > on their interactions with others, their
> > responses, etc. He said
> > > not only would you be able to do so, it would be
> > very easy to do
> > > so. In fact he said the DSM was designed to allow
> > a relative
> > > novice to achieve a "high reliability at
> > diagnosis".
> >
> > Hm. But Peter finally admitted he didn't know
> > whether Richard was psychotic.
>
> Of course not, it was a joke from the git go.
>
> > In any case:
> >
> > Did you ask your psychiatrist friend whether it
> > would be OK to announce this at-a-distance diagnosis
> > to a group of the person's nonprofessional peers?
>
> I didn't make a diagnosis. Calling someone psychotic
> IS NOT A DIAGNOSIS. There is not a DSM diagnosis
> called "psychotic". Psychosis refers to a group of
> symptoms.
>
> >
> > Did you ask him whether it would be OK to *make up*
> > a diagnosis purely out of spite and announce it to
> > a group of the person's nonprofessional peers?
>
> Make-up a diagnosis ?????? Out of spite??? I have no
> spite towards Richard. Sure I think his posts are
> whacky at times but spite? Judy, you continue to cast
> me in some villainous role in your own psyche. The
> evil doctor who beats-up the poor unwashed on FFL.
> Watch out, I'll commit you. I have big bad ju-ju!!
>
Just so you know, your name has been submitted to The FFL People's
Re-Education Committee for Truth and Justice, so that you may be
absolved of your over educated and professionally expressed sins in
a perfectly objective setting, thereafter to be sentenced to perform
humble service of the type typically assigned petty criminals.
Confess Peter, and repent!:-)
