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.
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.
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
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.
From the Andrea Dora epesisode:
KRAMER: Oh, I’ll take a vet over an M.D. any day. They gotta be able to cure a lizard, a chicken, a pig, a frog.
I think part of the success of the show is that Jerry played the straight man in the first 5 or 6 seasons in the (comedic sense), and if he is or not ocd, his character was a outstanding pivot or medium.
Such a funny show.
“He has a Peter Pan complex.”