Jews and Psychiatry?
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is coming out on May 18. The first edition in 19 years, the DSM-5, as it is known, has already gotten its share of attention and criticism.
The satirical Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas--created by the fictitious Dr. Sol Farblondget--sends up the DSM with its listing of Jewish disorders.
CATEGORIES OF MISHEGAS
1.0 NERVOUS CONDITIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Nervous conditions are part of the human condition, and thus are as different in their variations as human beings are different from one another. Still, it is helpful to understand what form of nervousness you are experiencing, or what type of tsuris-addict is torturing you with tales of woe, and to thereby figure out how to tell the feeling, or the person, to...