PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tunnel Vision, Mental Disorder, Iceberg
12 Dec 2019
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Classifying people into and out of categories. When we know of a disorder then that can help with treatment. Taking something normal and assuming that there"s a problem with it. Rare that they get diagnosed with one thing. Tend to focus on one specific diagnosis. And tease apart which symptoms are which. As a clinician, you can get very biased by a diagnosis. Might get very focused on depression treatment. Where maybe the person just needs a better living situation. At what point does an act make someone not or are criminally responsible. What do call a specific mental disorder. But prototypical gives you a good explanation for symptoms. Can"t seem to get clinicians and researchers to identify a disorder. Certain number of criteria and you have all 5. Historically there is some sort of pathological basis. Very specific, this is a stool vs a chair vs a bar stool. Either you have those or you don"t.
