PSYC 106 Lecture 14: PSYC 106 LAST WEEK
19 Jul 2016
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Know all the ideas put out and look at what their motivation is. Psychological disorders are not real because we created them. Little evidence to suggest one psychotherapy is better than the other. Psychological suffering located in bran can be reduced to biochemical disorder/disease/dysfunction. This necessarily makes suffering medical (bodily processes gone awry) A symptom is a symptom; meaning of symptom is not a concern. Other ways of looking at suffering/ alternative measures of illness. Alters way of seeing and being in the world. Ex. depression is an emotional suffering not a psychological disorder (we create). Syndrome is made up of different symptoms that seem to go together. Tendency to believe the whatever receives a name must be an entity or being having an independent existence of its own. sometimes a thing is not a thing. Over time, labels gets mistaken for actual disease.
