Phoenix wrote: what if we’re all wrong
and its not really NPD’d people we were dealing with?
what if they were someplace else on the N scale?
would it have made a difference?
Phoenix,
The DSM-IV is a categorization of behaviors. Meet 5 of x or y or z criteria and get a label. So what? Most everyone can meet 5 criteria of at least one if not several of their labels. So what is normal and what is abnormal? Some of it is capitalism, some of it is just simply reducio absurdum. There has to be a label in order for the insurance company to pay for treatment. And insurance companies do NOT want to pay because the field has been a sham always. This is not medicine, it is not science. Psychology was always only about what the scientists could not explain. Idiots with big mouths, including Freud (cocaine addict), including Sam and so many others, too many on this board, a host of psuedopshycologists who blow any thing out their @#$% holes. Talk is cheap and that is all it was and is, and is what goes on this board.
When I was young, asthma was a psychological problem. Than the scientists figured out what caused it. No one would no ever suggest such to an asthmatic this time and place. I would lay money your degree does not say “Science” but rather “Arts”.
The 1990’s was designated as the “Decade of the Brain” because scientists learned so much. At the turn of the century, many including Eric Kandel (Nobel prize winner in neurology) were advocating the dissolving of psychiatry as a specialty in medicine. Freud was ruled DEAD. The only area of psychology that survived is the cognitive area, but it is NOT the only aspect that affects behavior!! There really is a brain and body!! Now the medical programs are requiring psychiatry majors (bottom of the class) pass neurology boards. Psychology majors are being required to take neurobiology courses.
This board is archaic and ridiculous.
Blixten has been trying hard to tell people that Sam and others who are posting are shams. Shame on her?
