101183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anesthetic, Cesare Lombroso
17 Sep 2018
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Applying psychological science to controversies in abnormal and forensic psychology: the best means of combatting psychological misinformation is providing people with accurate psychological information. "men are from mars, women are from venus: terminological confusion, schizophrenia = split personality, hypnosis = sleep state. Part 1: applying psychological science to controversies in abnormal psychology. Precursor attempts at modern science: pseudo-sciences, astrology, phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry. Historical psychomythology: phrenology - 1800"s, extremely specific psychological capacities were localised to distinct areas of the brain - 27 to. 43: personality could be deducted by measuring patterns of bumps of skulls, thought enlarges brains created indentations on the skull. "having ones head examined: studies eventually showed that damage to these particular areas rarely caused the predicted deficits. Other disorders associated with suicide: panic disorder, condition marked by unexpected surges of extreme terror. Depression and suicide: hopelessness may be a better predictor than depression, depression decreases in old age, but suicide increases sharply esp. in men.
