Posted on 01/02/2015 6:21:47 PM PST by Gamecock
NJ.com reports that medical students at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are learning about psychiatric disorders through Dr. Anthony Tobia's "Psy-feld" teaching tool.
Tobia diagnoses Jerry Seinfeld's character as obsessive compulsive, George Costanza as being egocentric and Kramer as schizoid. He says Elaine is unable to forge meaningful relationships and Newman was "very sick."
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Dr. Tobia might want to think hard about why studying real people is much better than playing around with made up characters.
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Together the personalities made for great comedy.
Can students even study real people now, with all the medical privacy laws?
Rumor has it that Harvard Medical School’s doing the same thing but they’re using “Married...With Children”.
costanza wasn’t diagnosed as neurotic?
"It's a...... phobia."
I thought they were just supposed to be typical obnoxious New Yorkers.
Anything to do with the RWJ foundation is a commie collectivist lie. If they told me the sun would come up tomorrow, I wouldn’t believe them.
From speaking with a native of NYC the characters of Seinfeld are normal.
This show is still the greatest ever. Needs to be on Netflix.
Hey Doc. It’s a lousy TV show (and a great one at that). I thought doctors dealt with real people. At least those are the patients I saw in my doctors’ offices and the hospital in the past few weeks.
I wonder who the crazy one is here.
Anyone want to take a vote?
Doc - crazy or “Seinfeld” characters - crazy, or both
To #8. Re Costance diagnosed as a neurotic? Nah, just suffer from “SHRINKAGE”!!!
Or uromycitisis?
Egocentrism is not a DSM diagnosis.
I hope the professor is telling his students that everyone has clinical and personality disorder traits. The questions are: (1) Do the number of traits meet categorical criteria for a diagnosis?; and (2) Do the traits/behaviors have a substantially negative impact on a person’s adaptive functioning?
He must be training psychiatrists. As a psychologist, I have known many in my time. Their ability to make correct clinical diagnoses is on a par with my plumber.
I took my first Abnormal Psychology class in 1972. The very experienced professor made two pre-emptor apologies on the first day of class. First, he apologized for having us buy his textbook, but he needed to provide beer money for his sons. Second, he was sorry that so many students would self-diagnose, as was his experience, because everyone has some clinical and personality disorder traits.
Why, that was SOOO ancient that even the DSM labeled homosexuality as a disorder ...
Before the politics got involved.
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