Question

What arguments does Charley offer to show his disagreement with the psychiatrist diagnosis?

Answer 1

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Psychiatrist Friend’s reaction:

When Charley shared his third level experience with Sam, his psychiatrist friend, the latter explained it to be Charley’s waking dream wish fulfillment. He further explained it could have happened because of his unhappiness.  

Charley’s wife’s reaction:

When Charley’s wife heard that Charley was unhappy, she got angry as she thought he was unhappy on account of her; but then Sam explained to her he meant insecurity, fear, war, and worry of the modern world.  

Charley’s reaction:

Charley himself was amazed and flabbergasted at this experience.

Answer 2

• Charley's argument against the psychiatrist’s diagnosis is primarily twofold.
• First of all, he points out that the psychiatrist did not test Hester against a group of people without mental illness who were selected at random.
• Instead, he used a group of people with mental illness whom he had carefully screened to ensure that they didn’t have a mental illness that would interfere with their ability to provide informed consent.
• Second, Charley points out questions such as, “Are you experiencing any unusual thoughts or behaviours?”
• Charley also makes clear that the particular assumptions about Hester’s mental processes and behaviour he was making were not universal to all psychosis.
• The psychiatrist was aware that Hester was not the only woman in the world who had experienced psychosis.
• Charley points to examples of women who did experience psychosis, but who did not have symptoms that fulfilled the DSM-5’s criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
• Charley also highlights that the psychiatrist made clear that he was not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, and that his assessment might have been affected by the stigma attached to mental illness.

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