Failure to Have Organisms

by Will Wilkinson on December 10, 2004

Sometimes typos really improve a sentence. I snorted lemonade out my nose today when I read this:

Taking one example of a disorder that is “obvious from surface features,” Inhibited Female Orgasm, Wakefield applauds the authors of DSM-III-R for discriminating between those cases in which women fail to have organisms from inadequate stimulation and those involving true dysfunction.

Isn’t that just wonderful?!

From Dominic Murphy and Robert L. Woolfolk, “The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis of Mental Disorder,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 4 (December 2000).

  • Will:

    You shouldn't be drinking lemonade and reading about orgasm at the same time, now should you?
  • Will --

    You have a remarkably varied reading list.
  • Erin
    There is no such thing as the female organism.
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