From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Sat 10 May 2003 - 13:49:15 GMT
Lawry wrote:
<<My scenario is not one in which the person is trying to prove he is
'right',
but one in which he is trying to alert others to a danger he has discovered.
Remember that I am _positing_ that he is right in his analysis, and that he
has discovered a genuine threat to his country. Would you say that the
person in my scenario has a personality disorder, according to the DSM?>>
Yes.
<<You introduce an interesting term: "well-adjusted." Is the DMV definition
of
personality disorder simply describing a person who is not "well-adjusted"?
What is the relationship between 'well-adjusted' and 'comforming/st'?>>
I didn't invent the term. :)
A conformist would sacrifice personal fulfillment for the sake of fitting
in. Someone well adjusted will get along with himself and others.
<<Did Galileo have a personality disorder, according the DSM criteria? Was
he
not well-adjusted?>>
I suppose it depends upon whose biography you're reading.
<<I worry about labeling people generally, as the diversity of human beings
well exceeds the variety of labels with which people describe each other.
The effect of the labeling, whatever else, seems to occlude the distinctions
that characterize people from each other. If those distinctions are
important, label may then make it difficult for people to interact
effectively with each other.>>
I think the ineffective interaction comes first, then the label. :)
<<Good to see you on-line.>>
I've been here, just letting Joe and Keith answer most of the memetics
questions. :)
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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