Oops, of course I find that Mark has anticipated me, & with better
background to do so. Thanks Mark.
Doug
On 19-Dec-05, at 1:48 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> In the trade men who fit the diagnosis have been referred to as
> hysterics for at least thirty years, without embarrassment, tho
> informally one sometimes hears "male hysteric." Neither the male nor
> the female kind is referred to as hysteria in the DSM, the standard
> Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which breaks
> the psyche's possibilities into insurance-company-frindly numbered
> cotegories. A list of them can be found at
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res7oqx1/id17.html.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> At 12:54 PM 12/19/2005, you wrote:
>> Is there a psychological category/classification for "male hysteria"?
>> I
>> admit to suffering from what that is on occasion. But it begins to
>> strike me
>> that Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Gonzales et al are "male-hysterics". I
>> suspect it
>> was not the Twin Towers but the plane that went into the Pentagon (the
>> equivalent of their private parts) that provoked a full dose, now
>> over 4
>> year sustained attack of this nationally self-destructive hysteria.
>> In their
>> madness they have torn-up the constitution, tortured, etc., etc.
>>
>> Not a pretty site! Pretty crazy. It will be interesting to see if the
>> U.S.A.
>> Congress and Judiciary will have the courage to stop enabling this
>> disease.
>> I suspect, sadly, the recovery will be quite slow.
>>
>> Stephen V
>
>
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