PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dsm-5, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
Lecture 14
Monday, May 29, 2017
1:28 PM
Psychological Disorders
Abnormal Psychology
• To study abnormal is best way of understanding the normal
• Failure analysis approach
Mental Health and Illness
• How someone is living can affect level of mental health
• Unemployment causes poor mental health
• What defines mental illness?
o Not easy to answer
o What differentiates these behaviours
Definition of Abnormal Behaviour
• Statistical rarity
• Subjective distress
• Impairment/ maladaptive behaviour
• Societal disapproval / deviation from an ideal
• Biological dysfunction
• Need for treatment
• Loss of control over one's behaviour
• Irrationality
• Age gender and culture must be taken into account **
Culture Bound Syndromes
• Amok - Malaysia - violent behaviour
• Evil eyes - being cursed by a glance of a malicious person
• CULTURE shapes what symptoms are expressed
• CULTURE influences the meanings given to the symptoms
Historical perspective
• Demonic model
o Odd behaviours were the result of evil spirits inhabiting the body exorcisms and
witch hunts were common during this time
• Medical model
o Asylums were created
• Overflowed understaffed
o Treatments were no better
• Bloodletting and snake pits
• Moral treatment
o Pioneered by Philippe Pinel and Dorothea Dix
o Treated patients with dignity respect and kindness but without effective treatments
• Deinstitutionalization
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Abnormal psychology: to study abnormal is best way of understanding the normal. Mental health and illness: how someone is living can affect level of mental health, unemployment causes poor mental health, what defines mental illness, not easy to answer, what differentiates these behaviours. Societal disapproval / deviation from an ideal: biological dysfunction, need for treatment, age gender and culture must be taken into account ** Culture bound syndromes: amok - malaysia - violent behaviour, evil eyes - being cursed by a glance of a malicious person, culture shapes what symptoms are expressed, culture influences the meanings given to the symptoms. Heritability of mental illness: mental illness is heritable. Identical twins versus fraternal twins vs children vs siblings vs nieces, cousins, gets lower and lower. Life time prevalence is over a life time: who says in 2020 it will go behind heart disease as second leading cause of disability.
