PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Psy, European Cooperation In Science And Technology, Dorothy Dix
3 Jan 2013
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1. 6 million meet critera but have not been formally diagnosed. Life time prevelence=approximately 46: nearly 75% of all cases start by age 24, high cost for society. History & theories of psychological disorders: mood, anxiety, personality, thought disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders. Anything that deviates from soc norms within a culture. Unusualness- defined statistically by what is average behavior; therefore. Abnormality can be defined as what is rare with i the population. Discomfort- abnormal- discomfort & desire to be rid of behavior. Mental illness- behavior that result from a mental illness. Individual suffers distress & impacts on daily life functioning. Catagorical -states that disorders are qualitatively distinct syndromes- used in. Dimensional is better because it is a quantification of attributes rather then. Stone age- evil spirits ghosts, demons were thought to be cause of mental. Ancient greece, egypt, & rome: more emphasis on biology. As early as the 12th century the mentally ill were generally confined to one place.
