Doug Henwood wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >Just a note on this: nobody has "psychoses" anymore. It's not in the
> >DSM-IV
>
> No, but there's a whole section in DSM-IV (i.e., the fourth edition
> of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical
> Manual) on "psychotic disorders." Are we splitting hairs over the
> difference between "psychoses" and "psychotic disorders"?
By no means. The adjective applies to a common symptom shared by a number of conditions which have quite different nature. Would you want to group together all illnesses characterized by fever. That is *exactly* what you are doing if you use the term "psychosis" as the name of an illness. You name innumerable mental condtions that are unrelated in structure and in cause. Or since both you and Bob Avakian dislike Clinton I can call you an Avakianist.
Carrol