PSYC1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dsm-5, Reduced Affect Display, American Psychiatric Association
23 Aug 2018
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What is abnormal: normal, belief that asio could in principle be tracking your location, marginal, belief that asio might be tracking your location, abnormal, belief that asio is actually tracking your location. Defining abnormality: determining wether a thought or behaviour is abnormal is difficult, four characteristics to consider when determining wether a thought/behaviour is. Abnormal": all 4 characteristics have their limitations as diagnostic tools, abnormal thoughts and behaviours tend to be . The concept of a mental disorder: abnormal thoughts and behaviours tend not to occur in isolation. Emile kraepelin (1856-1926) was the first to classify types of mental disorders based on systematic empirical observations. Before kraepelin there was little agreement on what constituted a mental illness madness" vs. each individual symptom as a separate disorder. Kraepelin offered diagnostic categories defined by common patterns of symptoms. Diagnostic systems: kraepelin"s system and most current diagnostic systems imply that mental disorders are separate entities.
