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...One of the things duct tape cannot fix.

OTOH, you can find the DSM-IV here, among other places online.

Never heard of it. Sounds like a rebellious kid to me, though.

Yep, rebellious kid syndrome.

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/oppositional_defient_disorder.htm

Of course its not a hard science. The term was created specifically to exclude sciences like psychology and sociology. Anyway, yes: there are many defined psychological terms. For instance, every recognized psychological disorder is spelled out very clearly in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Apply to which ever side you're on.
Voyeurism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeurism

Antisocial Personality Disorder
Conduct Disorder

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/clinical_psychology/cri teria_personality_antisocial.htm

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-ch02.html

Patients Often Deny That They Have Mental Illness
(You poor, sick bastard)
Diagnose Yourself !!!!

http://www.mytherapy.com/features/

Do the people who plant IEDs have IED? Are these devices IED? Did they go to IED? I doubt they went to IED and I'm pretty sure they didn't attend the IED! I'm also fairly sure they didn't go to IED.

Acronyms are for lazy, stupid people. IMO. YMMV. HAND.

And you are thinking of dissociative identity disorder ;)

The debate over MPD boils down to two camps of psychiatrists/psychologists: those who belive it's its own diagnosis, and those who believe that MPD patients, in fact, have the dilusion of having multiple personalities. The result was that when DSM-IV was realeased, MPD (which was its own diagnosis in DSM-III) was folded into a diagnosis called DID, or Disassociative Identity Disorder. MPD patients, of course, insist it's the real thing. Meanwhile, the position of the DSM authors is that it's impossible for more than one person to exist in a body, so MPD is not possible.

It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry. Whether soap operas choose to call their loony, contrived characters "MPD", "DID", or ~shudder~ "schizophrenic" doesn't matter, because it doesn't change the reality that there are people walking around who either have, or think they have, multiple people inside their heads. So while there's no clinical proof of MPD (as it was classified in DSM-III), all experts agree that *something* is causing these people to behave as if they were different people.

All that aside, neither of these diagnoses are related to schizophrenia, which you point out is a psychotic break, not a personality split.

More info is at this site

So bottom line is, no matter how you scratch it, anyone who uses the word "schizophrenic" to mean "multiple or split personality" is using what has become the common, though incorrect, usage of the word.

I didn't think so. I'm formally trained in niether psychology nor psychiatry, nor have I met Eric Yang; but I am a member of MENSA and a student of human behavior. I think I know a sociopath [slashdot.org] when I see one.

And DAMN you know how to pound your dick on the table to try and convince everyone you are right!

Being a student of behavior doesn't really make you any more qualified than anyone else to make the observation of if someone is a sociopath or not. And a MENSA membership doesn't qualify you either - which kinda makes me question your wisdom of posting that you are a MENSA member. Plus, anyway - 2% of the world can be a MENSA member. If you would have said you were a IQuadrivium member, I might have been more impressed ;-) (only .1% of the world can qualify for that one. And there's ones with even more stringent restrictions on IQ - of course, there's certain problems with quantifying extremely high IQ's in the first place!)

In other words - please, if you are going to try and use something to prove your point, how about I dunno... use the wonderful ability to hyperlink to relavant information instead of trying to turn this into an "I'm smarter than you" style contest. More people listen when relevant information is presented, while attempting to make people believe you have a bigger dick really doesn't do anything but make people scoff at you, and totally disreguard your statements completely.

What's really IRONIC (damned if I'm not havin' some fun now!) about this is that you've claimed Eric Yang to be a sociopath. However, you've already exhibited at least one sign of a sociopath - excessive boasting. More likely than not based on your MENSA comment, you could also potentially have a second problem that's commonly exhibited: Grandiose sense of self-worth.

So quit callin' people names and flingin' terms when you think the ignorant masses don't really follow what you are saying. You might be surprised - a really large number of us are actually somewhat intellectual ourselves, and do know the definition and meaning of large words.

(Ok, I SWEAR - that's the only time I've ever used the term 'intellectual' attached to a group of people that includes myself. Sheesh.)