The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas potchkied together and compiled by edition by Lloyd Sederer Michael Friedman Jay Neugeboren Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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THE DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL OF MISHEGAS (DMOM) is a delightful parody of the American Psychiatric Association’s “Bible of psychiatry,” the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). In this playful send-up of the DSM, the authors—all of whom are distinguished writers with deep roots in the field of mental health—cut through the hundreds of categories in the 1000-page D.S.M. by dividing all mental disorders into two realms mishegas major and mishegas minor.
And for each of the sub-categories it analyzes—spilkes major (and spilkes minor), yenta, kvetch, alter kocker, shnorrer, dementia-with-benefits, etc.— it provides light-hearted anecdotes that not only illustrate the diagnostic category, but also make you plotz with laughter. THE DMOM will enable readers to transform ordinary tsuris and mishegas—the glooms, blues, angsts, and general chazzerie of their lives—into transcendent and easy-to-understand categories. It will turn kvetching into kvelling and guilt into gelt, so that readers will learn to live at peace with their inner mishegas and to treasure its precious and life-giving absurdities.
A perfect gift for Mental Health Month (May), Father’s Day, or for your favorite mishugenah friend or relative any time of the year, THE DMOM is sure to keep readers laughing long after the last page is read.
The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas potchkied together and compiled by edition by Lloyd Sederer Michael Friedman Jay Neugeboren Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
I am willing to bet that at this very minute giggles and guffaws are emanating from at least half of the doctors' offices and nurses' stations at Mount Sinai Hospital in NY, and at medical facilities all over. Just imagine--you walk down a quiet corridor on the Psychiatric Floor, only to hear hysterical laughter echoing down the hall and you think clinically, "That must be the Avoidant Personality with 292.11 in Room 256, who's also coming down from Coffee Intoxication." But no---the laughter is coming from Doctor Klein's office. You quicken your pace until you get to his open door . . .and there he is, tears pouring down his face, a balding, overweight laughing hyena, with a small blue book in his hands. Then you notice, further down the hall, two nurses with the same blue book, pointing to lines on a page and giggling like 12-year-olds.What is everyone laughing at?--it's "The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas," a 62-page answer to the ponderous medical bible of psychiatric diagnosis called "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision" (DSM-IV-TR). This is the often controversial opus that has relentlessly squeezed medical diagnosticians into an ever-shrinking box. The 5th edition has recently appeared, making what some feel are useless changes and additions. Almost any emotion, feeling, or human can now be viewed through a psychiatric lens, instead of seeing them first and foremost as ordinary reactions to life stimuli. The kicker is this: Without a doctor's being able to put down one or more of the codes on a patient's chart, indicating a diagnosis, virtually no medical insurance company will pay a plugged nickel. That's scary.
Faced with this situation, the authors have their own version, based on the principle that all of us are meshugah, but some are more meshugah than others. They use terms from the Yiddish language, including numerous stories that will leave you, like the nonexistent Dr. Klein, laughing his "tuchas" off.
This is not another "Joys of Yiddish," but: if you have ever read that book or come to appreciate all the words that English has borrowed from Yiddish; if you need to rely on the DSM-V yourself to earn your daily matzoh; if you are or know a Jewish medical practitioner; if you are a "meshuganer yid" or a "mishegoy"; if you want to understand the psychiatric complications of being a "schmuck, a schlemiel, a schlimazel, a schmegegge, a schmendrik," or any of the dozens of other words describing everyday mishegas and tsuris; then you need to read this book. Think of all the times you have torn your hair out trying to find a nonexistent diagnosis in the DSM for an unusual patient--and enjoy a great and hilarious alternative!
Yes, I know the book only has 62 pages, but since you will have at least 10 laughs per page, that's a lot of laughter. (A suggestion: Once your sides stop hurting from all the laughing, buy Michael Wex's "Born to Kvetsch" and laugh some more. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.))
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The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas potchkied together and compiled by edition by Lloyd Sederer Michael Friedman Jay Neugeboren Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
This is my kind of humor; very helpful to anyone who is not Jewish. My family lived in my grandmother's house in New York during the depression and when the grown-ups didn't want me to know what they were talking about, they spoke Yiddish. I learned fast!
...and the husband thought it was so funny he's shared it with friends. I'm sure if you are in the target audience, this book is a slam dunk. According to him, though, some of the jokes run on the risque side so beware if you are showing this to your rabbi!
This could have been funny, but for me, the obvious ignorance of the Yiddish language killed it. Transliterations were inaccurate, and grammar was awful, e.g,. a noun for an adjectives, etc., . Incidentally, the expression "farschlepte krenk" , meaning, loosely, "pain on the neck"'was employed some decades back in a well-known study of psychoses among twins in Denmark.
This book is an excellent remedy for the task of sorting out truth from politics in psychodiagnostics as it is conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association. Finally I can distinguish verklempt from fartummelt! When I leaf through this book in moments of frustration with the Other Book, I always manage to find a re-balancing chuckle, guffaw and humorous antidote that helps me to recover and move one. Highly recommended!
I got this for my son-in-law as a gift for his new clinical therapist job, and even though he's not Jewish, having married into a Jewish family and hearing a lot of the Yiddish phrases and kvetching styles, he was delighted with it. Several people in the family have ordered their own copies after seeing his. I highly recommend it - and if you're Jewish, give one to your therapist!
I thought the humor was brilliant and captured the cultural "way of life" better than most of the comedians that had toured the borscht belt in the 60"s. I immediately sent a copy of one of my Christian friends who is also a therapist and despite the cultural
"gap" he was immediately able to also see the poignant and humorous depictions of a people who are known for both "kvetching" as well as surviving.
I imagine this was written by a group of guys who were drunk, stoned, or slap-happy-exhausted after months of working on DSM committees, listening to complaints for hours on end from people unwilling to change (and I don't mean patients!), and wondering what their years of devotion to the cause of psychiatry had produced. Until they decided to not take it seriously. This is a silly little book, but you will learn or refine your Yiddish, appreciate Jewish guilt more, and get a sense for why Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen - in fact, MOST of the great American comedians and humorists - have been Jewish. I can't wait for the breakdown of the Jewish humour genome!
I am willing to bet that at this very minute giggles and guffaws are emanating from at least half of the doctors' offices and nurses' stations at Mount Sinai Hospital in NY, and at medical facilities all over. Just imagine--you walk down a quiet corridor on the Psychiatric Floor, only to hear hysterical laughter echoing down the hall and you think clinically, "That must be the Avoidant Personality with 292.11 in Room 256, who's also coming down from Coffee Intoxication." But no---the laughter is coming from Doctor Klein's office. You quicken your pace until you get to his open door . . .and there he is, tears pouring down his face, a balding, overweight laughing hyena, with a small blue book in his hands. Then you notice, further down the hall, two nurses with the same blue book, pointing to lines on a page and giggling like 12-year-olds.
What is everyone laughing at?--it's "The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas," a 62-page answer to the ponderous medical bible of psychiatric diagnosis called "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision" (DSM-IV-TR). This is the often controversial opus that has relentlessly squeezed medical diagnosticians into an ever-shrinking box. The 5th edition has recently appeared, making what some feel are useless changes and additions. Almost any emotion, feeling, or human can now be viewed through a psychiatric lens, instead of seeing them first and foremost as ordinary reactions to life stimuli. The kicker is this Without a doctor's being able to put down one or more of the codes on a patient's chart, indicating a diagnosis, virtually no medical insurance company will pay a plugged nickel. That's scary.
Faced with this situation, the authors have their own version, based on the principle that all of us are meshugah, but some are more meshugah than others. They use terms from the Yiddish language, including numerous stories that will leave you, like the nonexistent Dr. Klein, laughing his "tuchas" off.
This is not another "Joys of Yiddish," but if you have ever read that book or come to appreciate all the words that English has borrowed from Yiddish; if you need to rely on the DSM-V yourself to earn your daily matzoh; if you are or know a Jewish medical practitioner; if you are a "meshuganer yid" or a "mishegoy"; if you want to understand the psychiatric complications of being a "schmuck, a schlemiel, a schlimazel, a schmegegge, a schmendrik," or any of the dozens of other words describing everyday mishegas and tsuris; then you need to read this book. Think of all the times you have torn your hair out trying to find a nonexistent diagnosis in the DSM for an unusual patient--and enjoy a great and hilarious alternative!
Yes, I know the book only has 62 pages, but since you will have at least 10 laughs per page, that's a lot of laughter. (A suggestion Once your sides stop hurting from all the laughing, buy Michael Wex's "Born to Kvetsch" and laugh some more. Born to Kvetch Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.))
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