PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Disorder, Demonic Possession, Mental Disorder
6 Mar 2017
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March 2, 7, 9, 14 & 16, 2017. Examining different theoretical approaches to understanding the nature of mental disorders: assessment & diagnosis. Classifying and labeling mental illness: anxiety disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders. It is somewhat typical for students who are learning about an illness/disorder to feel they are exhibiting the disorder: hardy (1997) She also found that learning about psychological disorders was helpful in reducing health. Rare?: pathology (the study of disease, psychopathology (the study of mental diseases/disorders, mental illness, mental disease or mental disorder. Definitions: etiology the cause or origin of a disease (cid:498)genic(cid:499) formed from. Biogenic formed from (or caused by) biology. Psychogenic originating from the mind: symptomatology the study of, or the treatment of, the symptoms of a disease. The presence of the supernatural witches, or demonic possession. Theories of etiology (explaining abnormal behaviour: historically through torture of individuals with psychological disorders. Early (cid:498)evidence(cid:499) of demonic possession or witchcraft (cid:523)confessions(cid:524) was obtained.
