[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

[gepr]

No worries. The thing is, though, with cancer and pneumonia we do have well evidenced, reproducible, mechanistic hypotheses. That makes those hypotheses way more robust and trustworthy than personality disorders. So while there may be some deeply embedded circular reasoning in any diagnosis, the circular reasoning in purely phenomenal diagnoses is much more obvious.

Granted, I'm a big fan of parallax, as I've yapped about here before.  When a mechanism is unavailable, we can approach it through circumscribing a small region of behavior space with many purely phenomenal models, which is why these diagnoses need multiple attributes. But there's still no hiding from the circularity.

Also note that I regularly defend circular reasoning ala Robert​ Rosen, autopoiesis, non-well-founded sets, etc. But I wouldn't entertain a circular justification if there were good reasons to believe a well-founded explanation was out there somewhere.


On January 18, 2017 5:35:24 PM PST, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I apologize, Glen.  Please replace "cancer" with "pneumonia".
>
>Frank Wimberly
>Phone (505) 670-9918
>
>On Jan 18, 2017 6:16 PM, "Frank Wimberly" <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why is my husband unable to breathe and coughs all the time?  And
>what is
>> this large white area on his chest x-ray?
>>
>> He has lung cancer.
>>
>> How do you know?
>>
>> Because he has difficulty breathing, he coughs constantly, and he has
>a
>> positive chest x-ray.

>> > Wife: Why is my husband so self-important; why does he have such a
>sense
>> of entitlement?
>> > Psychiatrist: Because he has an illness called narcissistic
>personality
>> disorder.
>> > Wife: How do you know he has this illness?
>> > Psychiatrist: Because he is so self-important and has such a sense
>of
>> entitlement.

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⛧glen⛧