PSY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jon Ronson, Borderline Personality Disorder, Nomothetic
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He looked through it and thought he had 12 mental illnesses lol. He had lunch with a scientologist - part of a crack team that wants to destroy psychology. Meet tony, he faked mental illness so he could avoid jail for beating someone up. He asked to see the psychiatrist and told him that he wanted to watch women die, he got it from a ted. But now he"s stuck in an asylum and no one will believe he"s sane. He"s been in it for 12 years. He emailed tony"s clinician who said, we know he faked it but when we diagnosed him we found that he actually a psychopath. He found that people have a tendency to try and put people into boxes and ignore the aspects that don"t fit on the checklist. There is so much over diagnosing in this country! Dr. b brought her copy of the dsm-v to class! It"s huge and purple, published in 2013.
