DSM-V Cyber Disorders (fwd)

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)323-1998 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:57:37 -0400 From: "Christopher D. Green" <christo(a)YORKU.CA> Reply-To: Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences <CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA> To: CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders (fwd) Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 97 20:02:51 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.stanford.edu I thought his might amuse you. Christopher D. Green office: (416) 736-5121 Department of Psychology FAX: (416) 736-5814 York University North York, Ontario M3J 1P3 e-mail: christo(a)yorku.ca CANADA http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/christo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:31:52 -0400 From: Fredric Weizmann <weizmann(a)YORKU.CA> To: PSYCHOLOGY(a)YORKU.CA Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders Those of you familiar with the latest in psychiatric and psychological disorders as specified in the current Fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric will no doubt be interested in the preliminary draft of a new DSM-V Committee set up to report on Cyber Disorders. This report comes to you courtesy of Bruce Dienes <bdienes(a)S.PSYCH.UIUC.EDU>DU>. The Cyber Disorders section includes disorders that have a dependency upon cyberexistance as the predominant feature. The section is divided into three parts. The first part describes e-mail episodes that serve as the building blocks for the disorder diagnoses. The criteria sets for most of the Cyber Disorders require the presence or absence of the e-mail episodes described in the first part of the section. The third part includes the specifiers that describe either the most recent e-mail episode, or the course of recurrent episodes. The Cyber Disorders are divided into Posting Disorders, Flaming Disorders and CC Disorders. The Posting Disorders (i.e., Lurking Disorder, Chronic Posting Disorder and Posting Disorder not otherwise specified) are distinguished from the Flaming Disorders by the fact that there is no history of ever having posted a Flame or Flame-With-Apology. CC Disorders (CC-All Disorder and Spam Disorder) may include episodes of Chronic Posting, Flamies, and/or Flame-With-Apologies, but can be distinguished by the number of addresses. Lurking Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of lurking (i.e., at least two weeks of lurking or loss of interest in answering mail accompanied by at least four additional symptoms of Lurking, including high on-line time balances, walking away from the computer while logged on, composing posts and deleting them without sending them, etc.) Chronic Posting Disorder is characterized by at least 4 weeks of posting to a newsgroup of listserv more days than not, accompanied by additional Cyber symptoms such as checking mail several times per day, posts in which the content is shorter than the message header or sig, and messages of extreme anxiety when list volume drops. Posting Disorder Not Otherwise specified is included for coding disorders with posting features that do not meet the criteria for Lurking Disorder or Flaming Disorder. Flaming Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of hot-tempered posts, usually posted within seconds of receiving the "trigger" message, but can be distinguished from the Flame-With-Apology in that the sender has a sincere belief that he/she is 100% correct and morally entitled to his/her feelings of outrage. Flaming Disorder is often accompanied by Chronic Posting Disorder. Flame-With-Apology Disorder is a milder form of Flaming Disorder, in which the poster sincerely apologizes for the first portion of the message and yet sends it anyway. A variation of Flame-With-Apology exists in which posters staunchly defend their positiong for 3 to 4 days, then abruptly back down and revert to Chronic Posting or Lurking. The specifiers described in the third part of the section are provided to increase diagnostic specificity, create more homogeneous subgroups, assist in treatment selction, and improve the prediction of prognosis. Some of the specifiers describe the most recent episode (i.e., Pine Elm, Anonymous, With Humerous Features, and With Uncomplicated Internet Access.) Fred Weziamnn