Hotly dressed student dancers back up wigged-out, wobbling psychiatrist and neuroscientist Stephen Stahl in a tightly sung take on the BeeGees’ hit Stayin’ Alive that trips through the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. “Well you can tell by the way I use my book/ I can diagnose without a look,” begins the music video DSM-5 Fever from the Neuroscience Education Institute. “Well you can tell by your patient’s history/ at age 12, ADHD…”
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Like a Grimm Bros fable,
But we’ll give you a label,
with the DSM 5All a bunch of fakin,
but we’ll keep on a takin,
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Is this meant to imply that the DSM 5 is just as socially acceptable and progressive as disco from the 1970’s?
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Works for me š
I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay alive
I’ve got all my life to live
And I’ve got all my love to give
And I’ll survive
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I was hoping for something a little more substantive. I actually found it kind of disturbing…
—- Steve
