HSC 3537 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Voyeurism, Phobia, Family Therapy
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Intelligence tests: mental processing tests, memory tests. Psychiatric clinical symptoms: amnesia, anxiety, apathy, autistic thought, compulsion, conversion, delusion, dissociation, dysphoria, euphoria, hallucination, labile, mania, mutism, obsession. Sigmund freud and personalitystructure: id, ego, superego, defense mechanisms, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, neurocognitive disorders. Bipolar disorders: bipolar disorder: alternating manic and depressive episodes, cyclothymic disorder: mild bipolar with at least2 years of hypomania and numerous depressive episodes, depressive disorder: major depression, severe dysphoria. Prolonged emotion that dominates a person"s entire mental life. Depressive disorders: depressive disorder: major depression, severe dysphoria, dysthymic disorder. Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa: refusal to maintain body weight, conscious relentless attempt to diet, excessive over activity and exercise, bulimia: binge and purge eating using vomiting and misuse of laxatives or enemas. Disorders of abnormal cognition (thinking, perception, reasoning, judgment: delirium: mental confusion, incoherent speech, sensory misperception, disorientation, memory impairment, dementia: gradual loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of judgment, memory, abstract thinking, and personality.
