Posted by boB on April 18, 2000, at 21:33:23
In reply to Re: DSM-IV HELP!!, posted by Heath on April 16, 2000, at 23:30:53
Oh, jeez, I laid in bed thinking about this one. Maybe I need to get sleeping pills. That or a girlfriend. Maybe a girlfriend and some Viagra.
Anyway, the concept of psychological autopsy made me wonder. I am more familiar with victimology and forensic psychology. Did this psychologist cut into Hughes' brain, or was he just basing his analysis on hearsay?
My impression is this diagnose-the-dead-guy exercise is more of a lesson in accepting the authority of the professor, and screening potential practitioners. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge the validity of the method fails the class and never gets to practice. Condemned, like me, to mere babble!
It is no wonder scholars picked a capitalist as a subject for their exercise. It seems to further exhalt the ivory tower at the expense of the silly merchant class. Why don't they assign students to diagnose one of their own, perhaps Sigmund Freud, a reputed cocaine addict whose seminal work in the field of psychology was informed by his addiction and his sexual obsessions?
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