PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Viral Disease, World Health Organization, Gender Dysphoria

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: markherbert

Document Summary

Module 85: defining, classifying, and diagnosing psychological abnormalities. Abnormal psychology: scientific study of psychological disorders. No universal definition of what is abnormal behaviour. Much dysfunctional behaviour is too much or too little of a normal behaviour. Agreed upon features: deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger. Insufficient on its own to merit a diagnosis. System used by most countries to classify psychological disorders; published by the. World health organization and currently in its tenth edition (dsm-v) diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Manual used to diagnose mental disorders in north america. Provides a categorical list of symptoms for all 400 mental disorders. Early theories centered around inorganic explanations (cid:862)mad(cid:863) people (cid:449)ere ostra(cid:272)ized (cid:894)pla(cid:272)ed in zoo-like conditions) May have been beaten (tortured) or burned. Other (cid:862)treat(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:863): trephi(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)drilli(cid:374)g holes i(cid:374)to skull(cid:895); pull teeth, (cid:272)astratio(cid:374), (cid:271)lood transfusions. Not enough or too much of certain types of neurotransmitters. Viral infection effects on brain development.