PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Moral Treatment, Insanity Defense
20 Jan 2017
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Many different conceptions of mi, each with pros and cons: statistical rarity, subjective distress, societal disapproval, biological dysfunction. Diagnosis across cultures: certain conditions are culture-bound, koro involves believing your genitals are shrinking and receding into your abdomen, amok is marked by episodes of intense sadness and brooding followed by. Psy202 w2016 uncontrolled behaviour and violence: taijin kyofushu is a fear of offending others by saying something offensive or body, many severe mental disorders (schizophrenia, alcoholism, psychopathy) appear to odour be universal across cultures. Misconceptions: psychiatric diagnosis is nothing more than pigeonholing, psychiatric diagnoses are unreliable, psychiatric diagnoses are invalid, psychiatric diagnoses stigmatize people. The majority of people with schizophrenia are not aggressive or violent. Insanity defense requires people to not know: what they were doing at time of crime, what they were doing was wrong. Less than 1% of criminal cases use this successfully.
