PSYC2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kraepelinian Dichotomy, Emil Kraepelin, Dementia Praecox
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Mental disorder: a distinctive characteristic cluster of abnormal thoughts and behavio. The three d"s - distress, deviant and dysfunctional. Classification: the process of putting things into groups based on ways they are alike. The act of constructing classes and assigning things to these classes on the basis. Mental disorders have historically been classified on the basis of shared patterns of sy. There are different methods of classification, for example; Prototypical - prototypes/examples of symptoms for disorders and individ extended period of time and suffer a level of impairment in order to be diag. Dimensional approaches (mmpi) - how much or how severe a person"s symptom. Future directions - research domains criteria project (rdoc) Published the compendium der psychiatrie in 1883 (revised 1904 and 1907) Defined 15 categories of mental disorders based on common patterns of symptoms. Distinguished between dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic depression.
