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Christmas Carols from the DSM-5

Christmas Carols from the DSM-5

Last updated on: December 21, 2013 at 11:58 am by Artur Rosman

Christmas Carols from the DSM-5 2013-12-21T11:58:16-07:00 Artur Rosman

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You entrust your kids to the saintly equivalent of Mike Tyson each year?

Our kids have left a copy of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death under the Christmas tree. The nice Protestant children doing Christian commercials on the seasonal station Spirit 105.3 in Seattle make it sound like Jesus plopped out of the womb already crucified. This means it’s time to emerge from my blog hibernation with a psychologically penetrating post. Here then are Christmas carols culled from the DSM-5.

Don’t miss the links. In Advent calendar fashion they contain fun book surprises vaguely connected to the topic of each carol.

Schizophrenia — Do You Hear What I Hear?

Multiple Personality Disorder — We Three Queens Disoriented Queens Are

Dementia — I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas

Narcissistic Personality Disorder —

Cheers to some cray-cray reading.

Mania — Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and trees and Fire Hydrants and……

Dementia — I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas

Narcissistic Personality Disorder —

Dementia — I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas

Narcissistic Personality Disorder — Hark the Herald Angles Sing About Me

Paranoid — Santa Claus is Coming to Get me

Borderline Personality Disorder —Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder —Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells.

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