Posted by boB on April 16, 2000, at 18:56:41
In reply to DSM-IV HELP!!, posted by Heath on April 16, 2000, at 15:39:41
As a reporter, I am astounded that schools are having students diagnose dead people who can only be known by reading journalistic accounts of their lives. I sure as heck don't provide enough interviewing and testing for anyone to diagnose based on my stories, even though much of my work involves efforts to humanize and share personal insights about my subjects and sources.
If you insist on diagnosing Hughes, you should know that at least one of his biographers never met him and later admitted that his unauthorized biography was a hoax.
To the credit of your professor, at least you are not asked to practice on real people, who could be seriously disturbed by an unqualified diagnosis.
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