why won't anyone defend the dsm? first of all, it is because people who produce the dsm, frankly, don't have the chops to defend it. you need to have a fairly sophisticated grasp of post-modern philosophies to defend the book full of signifiers that don't have the signified. and the simi petitions seem to have gone -- >> out there for one minute. explain that to everyone. >> really? >> you have been writing about this for years. >> i've never said that. so -- >> what does it mean that it is full of signifiers? >> what that means is that the mental disorders that are listed, which are the mental disorders that drugs are aimed at, researchers are supposed to be tied to, the mental disorders that you have, people see a therapist, the mental disorders that you're a psychiatrist is supposedly treating when they give you drugs and someone, those mental disorders by everyone's understanding don't exist. there myths. well, they call them constructs. but a construct is a mess -- myth. it is an idea that guides the way that we

i believe people can recover from schizophrenia and bipolar and psychosis and all the dsm-labeled categories. not everyone recovers, but many do and many go on to live very happy and successful lives. and even if you don't recover to what other people's standards are what they think "recovery" is, you can get to a point within your own life, you can achieve a lot of happiness. so i advocate recovery and i advocate hope, hope for a better tomorrow for ourselves, our community and our world. thank you. >> thank you very much. and i thank everyone for coming out to do your presentations. it is very much an eye-opener and thank you again. we can go on to item no. 8. information report on the golden guardian exercise on may 15, 2013, the disability perspective. presented by council members chip and denise. >> thank you, roland. there has been a miswording on agenda. this is more of an update than a report. the disaster -- disability disaster preparedness committee is meeting july 5th and we're in the process of accumulating data from the experiences of people with disabilities who participated as

we know that this year it did not make it into the diagnosis of dsm-iii as a real psychiatry issue.he big issue is, is it a real addiction or is it a hypersexuallity. too much libido. that's what the debate is. when you talk about addiction, you're talking about real biologic changes in the brain. something happens when somebody has an alcoholic or gambling problem. this to me sounds more like obsessive-compulsive behavior with concentration on sex. somebody that has a real problem cannot get away with it. just like the obsessive person keeps going at it. these are people that may spend a lot of money. they know they have a problem. what's interesting? sometimes when they get caught, they're almost happy that they're through their misery. it's a very deep psychiatric issue. but i'm not sure if it's a real addiction. >> for people who know someone who have it themselves, what is the treatment, dr. siegel? >> i want to add to it something david is saying. a doctor out of ucla who's been the lead researcher here says that basically what she's looking at is the kind of addiction you mig

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greenberg presents a history of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders board the dsm presented by the american psychiatric association and used to assign definitions to mental illnesses. the author reports that the book first published in 1952 has been controversy and the release of each of its editions. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> so, i want to thank, well, gideon for coming out tonight. blue rider press which has taken a huge risk by being so supportive of an author that it has made me question myself loving, which is, you know, it remains to be seen if it will survive. [inaudible] >> estimate to continue to be able to write. >> thank you for being here. gary just flew in from portland. >> and boy are my arms tired. >> after having been on tour for the last two weeks. so he has done a lot of these things. so, i guess we are going to talk for 20 or 25

after thinking for going to the whole dsm and getting that done. one of my favorite chapter is right talk about the different kinds of brain scans. and what basically showed up in the brain scans also showed up -- showed up in the classroom, activities i did. when it came to athletics was strong and could run fast. when it came to skiing i could never keep them together and do those perfect -- that i found out my cerebellum was 20% smaller than normal. i found out that my fear center, the a in a dilemma, the brains your center was larger than normal. that would explain why had so much anxiety problems. terrible, terrible, terrible anxiety problems. there is no control with antidepressant medication. a lot of people a super anxious. a little bit of antidepressant get help, but one of the skins that turned me on was one done back in 2006. scientists at the university of pittsburgh and carnegie-mellon found that i have a great big huge visual track. that would explain my visual thinking. and then they found out that might -- answer will spinal fluid i

crap is common sense, he is a classic narcissistic personality disorder which you can look up in the dsmd states wall street. and he is -- in the past month, he's been talking about -- everything about him is airtight greed. he does it himself. i don't want the prada shoes. i don't want the stupid robe. you wear it if you want it. he said that. >> stephanie: there is a possibility he might be a gay atheist. >> a gatheist. this may be a whole new -- >> this pope doesn't care about footwear. that was the previous pope. >> stephanie: he doesn't care. i'm saying even for him to notice the footwear. jim is speculating as to -- is he wearing chuck taylors? i don't know what he's wearing. >> i hope he hasn't disappeared like the first john paul. >> stephanie: he is not wearing c -- crocs. the guy caught masturbating in crocs. the football player. i'm right. i could be right. i could be wrong. who can tell. we were telling healthcare horror stories earlier. how about this one. dead hospital patient woke up as doctors prepared to remove organs. >> that's horrifying because people -- it is a whole