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Originally Posted by yossarian  Here's the thing about diagnosing people... isn't it sort of impossible without their cooperation?
I mean when you don't have their active co-operation and their responses to probing questions, how can it really mean anything?
And then of course-
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane world."
There is nothing necessarily wrong with fitting the criteria of a mental disorder. The big question is whether it is maladaptive in the person's life - and this depends on subjectivity - ultimately coming down the patient's own hopes and desires. |
I will repeat again - yes, it is rather impossible to diagnose anyone over Internet. But also why not put some hypothesis that fits? When we have so much of material we don't need even cooperation. And yet more correctly - it is a hypothesis about the image of person presented here. I don't know even if the information about his life is true!! Maybe he never was imprisoned? Or Erin is not his wife but remote cousin or only business partner who agreed to play the role of his wife?? Who knows? Maybe he visits gay-bars frequently, has no children and so on? Maybe he is a woman?
I agree it's nothing necessarily wrong with fitting the criteria of some disorder. What does it mean exactly? It means basically that a person has certain difficulties and needs a great deal of effort to overcome it. It can be said about so many people! My teacher told me once that to become a really great person there must be some deep wound hidden in the heart, it's a powerful motivator, a powerful engine to grow, expand, conquer new lands and write beautiful poems. There must be also some gift, the wound only will not be enough, but still is essential.
And to your second post - as far as diagnose is next to impossible over Internet - countertransference is totally nonexistent without therapeutic relationship
