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The DSM-IV

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better known as The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...it's practically the bible for psychologists and psychiatrists when diagnosing if an individual has a mental disorder...i thought it would be useful for those of you out there who think you have a mental disorder and wish to evaluate yourself...as well as help those of you out there trying to perfect TAOS...
DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders
www.psychologynet.org/dsm.html
 
Thanks, I never knew it was online in its entirety, how convenient!
 
Shit, didn't know it was online... definitly a bookmark everyone should have!
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: 'What are they in a position to do about it?'" (William S. Burroughs)
 
Fianlly. I'd been considering stealing a copy from the bookstore at the university, now I don't have to. Thanka much.
 
In spite of its popularity, it is not considered that great of a test. They use mundane questions to determine abnormal behavior. "Do you read the newspaper?" is a question because paranoids read the newspaper....an obvious logical flaw. Granted, virtually noone will answer 'true' to questions like, "Is an evil army of robot ninja monkeys out to kill you?" but there are better ways to test people for mental disorders....wish my psychologist friend were available right now.
I took that thing so many fuckin times in high school that I could probably recite it under hypnosis. Or something else. ;]
 
Hey mote, I think your thinking of something else. The DSM isn't a test, it's big ass book that outlines all sorts of criteria for mental illness and social disorders. I dunno, maybe there are some test in there but it's just a book, not a standardized clinical test.
 
No, mote is thinking of something else. I can't remember the name of it but it is a fill in the blank test of hundreds of random questions to determine a person's personality, if they have any alcoholic/addict tendancies, and if they show any signs of mental disorders. It was put out by some state univeristy; it might have been The University of Minnesota. Some of the questions are pretty odd and many of the questions are on the test multiple times just rephrased differently. I had to take it when my parents threw me in drug rehab in high school many years ago.
 
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or the MMPI. Also, they aren't fill in the blank, they're T/F. They also aren't random questions.
[This message has been edited by Ochlocrat (edited 11 October 2001).]
 
It has been like 8 or 9 years since I took the test, but I remember the questions being quite random. Obviously there was a rhyme and reason behind the questions, but some of them were pretty off the wall. Also the fact that they would ask the same question over and over just worded differently. I remember of lot of them seemed to be loaded questions, trying to get a certain answer from you.
 
I remember something about why they have such random questions and repeated though reworded questions. It was something about simple to make sure your paying attention to the test and not just marking off T or F at random. Maybe there are other reasons for it but this sounds like a good one as well.
 
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