PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Emotional Expression, Self-Awareness, Psychopathology

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Dr Mike Moland

Document Summary

Psychological disorders consist of persistent, deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patters. Yet not all mental conditions are rare, some are quite common. Subjective distress most disorders produce emotional pain for those afflicted by them. Phase pf bipolar disorder, or conduct disorder in adolescence. Impairment most disorders interfere with people"s ability to function in everyday life. Societal disapproval societal attitudes shape out views of abnormality. Exorcisms are stilled performed in italy, mexico and other countries. 1. the medical model: mental illness due to physically disorder requiring medical treatment: many were overcrowded and understaffed warehouse, for mentally disturbed individuals, medical treatments were barely more scientific that those of the demonic era and several were barbaric. Bloodletting was bases on the mistake notion that excessive blood caused mental illnesses. 2. medication: in the early 1950"s a dramatic change in the treatment of mental illnesses arrived on the scene: chlorpromazine offered an effective treatment for symptoms of skizo and psychotic disorders.