[lbo-talk] let's argue about the cause of mental illness

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 27 12:05:39 PDT 2009


On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Andy wrote:


> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Carrol Cox<cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Carrol: Do you actually think discussion on an e-mail list can answer
>> these questions. It has been half-seriously joked that a diagnosis of
>> "Borderline Personality Distorder" is a psychiatrist's way of saying
>> "Fuck you!" to a patient.
>
> Hah! Yes. That always struck me as a clinical way of calling
> somebody a fucking asshole.

Does that make it untrue?



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