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Re: terms
Errol Back-Cunningham (ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol)
24 Sep 1996 22:50:54 GMT
In <5292g0$6mq@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
writes:
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>ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol Back-Cunningham) wrote:
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>> Schizoid implies being classified under the 'Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Model - the infamous DSM' as schizophrenic -
>> schizoaffective - would imply an 'affected' schizoid - someone
>> who affected to appear that way - multi-personality - or
>> multi-entity - in real life, generally in response to a
>> certain situation that the original entity or personality was
>> unable to handle - eg. small, wimpish person, has another
>> side - Rambo - that comes out when he gets pressured or stressed
>> in some way.
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>Errol Back-Cunningham is making it up out of thin air, and can't be
>bothered to look it up in a common dictionary.
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>The "affect" referred to in schizoaffective is not affectation, but
>affect, which means mood, with a slight bias toward meaning the
>external manifestations of mood. The major affects are mania and
>depression. Doctors tend to think that these are the only two, but
>this is wrong. "Saturninity" or any other mood that shows would also
>be an affect.
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>The entry for schizoaffective in Webster's Third reads exactly what
>you would expect it to read: "exhibiting symptoms of both
>schizophrenia and manic-depression."
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>Now then, Errol, up to the blackboard. Write one hundred times "I
>will not make stuff up when I don't really know."
Interestingly the word does not occur in my:
Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus - The New Only Fully
Integrated Dictionary and Thesaurus - You must be referring to
a word Invented by Americans again: When did you invent it?
Errol
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