[WikiEN-l] Missed Opportunities to have avoided the Durova Case

[Marc Riddell]

on 11/28/07 10:59 AM, Charlotte Webb at charlottethewebb at gmail.com wrote:

> On 11/27/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know how a private discussion list can cause harassment of someone
>> that a group doesn't like.  Even assuming that hostile harassment happens
>> somewhere [...], if the harassee is not present then they aren't being
>> subjected to anything.
> 
> What you don't know won't hurt you. Unless it is disseminated (as most
> things are, in the long term), or worse, blindly acted upon (as too
> many things are, in the short term).
> 
>> Sanity checks were performed regularly.
> 
> Psychiatry for Dummies, anyone?[1]. Sanity checks are a funny thing.
> Sometimes diagnosis creates more problems than the suspected condition
> ever would.

You're exactly right, CW. Some people take a diagnosis as being a personal
attack. What it really is, is we psychs' version of the "inconvenient
truth".

Marc