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I am occasionally asked by medical doctors and psychotherapists whether Jyotisha can predict the occurrence of certain medically established personality disorders. Psychotherapists who use the Enneagram system in their work have also expressed interest in possible correlations between Jyotisha and Enneagram personality categories. First of all, what is the Enneagram system and what is the "DSM"? Enneagram is the moniker given to a system of nine personality types, often attributed to the modern esoteric philosopher Gurdjieff. The nine types are summarized as:
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (current edition = DSM-IV-TR) a psychiatric manual of mental health conditions, published by the American Psychiatric association. Its behavior categories and the professional diagnoses made on the basis of those categories are increasingly controversial. However the DSM has been in use in the mental health industry since its first edition in **. Most conventionally trained therapists are familiar with its logic, at least in part because medical insurance companies in the USA demand a DSM-code number for any reimbursed treatments. It's a system that's flawed but hard to live without. A truly damaging criticism of the DSM is that its authors have historically had a close financial and professional relationship with the major American pharmaceutical companies. The DSM's simplistic and often overlapping diagnoses have continuing utility in the mental health industry not only because it serves as a working shorthand for professionals to describe their patients, but also because the DSM focuses significantly on recommended pharmaceutical drug therapies for every listed condition. Having said that
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updated: 04 July 2010