<story><title>Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)</title><url>http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdsimoes</author><text>I read two Einstein&apos;s biographies and I have come to the conclusion that if he was born today he would probably be a college drop out. Some people say that geniuses always survives life hardships, but the fact that there are no new Einsteins (or Maxwells, Plancks...) seems to show this isn&apos;t true.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I don&apos;t like this article&apos;s groundless speculation about Albert Einstein, who is used as an unwilling poster child for dozens of causes without support in Einstein&apos;s actual biography. I have carefully read Einstein&apos;s longest autobiographical writing, and cite it on my personal website,&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and while it is indisputable that Einstein blew off some of his school homework, it is not at all clear that he would meet any of the DSM-IV or new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for any of the conditions claimed for him.&lt;p&gt;More generally, there is a better call for improvement of psychological diagnosis&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;already up on the website of the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States, the subject of much news reporting and commentary in the last week. So I won&apos;t take this opinion piece by lone blogger as the last word on what needs to be done to improve psychological diagnosis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saraid216</author><text>Yeah. I&apos;ve never heard of Feynman or Hawking or anyone either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)</title><url>http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gdsimoes</author><text>I read two Einstein&apos;s biographies and I have come to the conclusion that if he was born today he would probably be a college drop out. Some people say that geniuses always survives life hardships, but the fact that there are no new Einsteins (or Maxwells, Plancks...) seems to show this isn&apos;t true.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I don&apos;t like this article&apos;s groundless speculation about Albert Einstein, who is used as an unwilling poster child for dozens of causes without support in Einstein&apos;s actual biography. I have carefully read Einstein&apos;s longest autobiographical writing, and cite it on my personal website,&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and while it is indisputable that Einstein blew off some of his school homework, it is not at all clear that he would meet any of the DSM-IV or new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for any of the conditions claimed for him.&lt;p&gt;More generally, there is a better call for improvement of psychological diagnosis&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;already up on the website of the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States, the subject of much news reporting and commentary in the last week. So I won&apos;t take this opinion piece by lone blogger as the last word on what needs to be done to improve psychological diagnosis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&amp;#62; Some people say that geniuses always survives life hardships, but the fact that there are no new Einsteins (or Maxwells, Plancks...) seems to show this isn&apos;t true.&lt;p&gt;No new Einsteins, Maxwells, and Plancks?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phys...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>