--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I was talking to a psychiatrist friend last night and asked him > about diagnoses of people you knew online for a couple of years > and if it would be possible to diagnose someone, roughly, based > on their interactions with others, their responses, etc. He said > not only would you be able to do so, it would be very easy to do > so. In fact he said the DSM was designed to allow a relative > novice to achieve a "high reliability at diagnosis".
Hm. But Peter finally admitted he didn't know whether Richard was psychotic. In any case: Did you ask your psychiatrist friend whether it would be OK to announce this at-a-distance diagnosis to a group of the person's nonprofessional peers? Did you ask him whether it would be OK to *make up* a diagnosis purely out of spite and announce it to a group of the person's nonprofessional peers?
