PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Thomas Szasz, Psychopathy Checklist, Gender Dysphoria

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Distinguishing normal from abnormal behaviour: must examine content and context. A continuum of emotions and behaviour: length of time; intensity of emotion; impact. What does the behaviour look like: unconventionality and/or irrational, statistical rarity. Need for a common shorthand: for research, for practice. Understanding the cause of the symptoms: e. g. symptom of grandiosity. Focus on a description of patterns of symptoms: behaviours, cognitions, emotions. Orgasm in women as abnormal (1800s) vs female orgasmic disorder (dsm-v) Homosexuality: removed from dsm-ii in 1973, sexual orientation disturbance (dsm- iii, 1980) Ego-systematic and ego-alien: sexual disorder nos (dsm-iii-r, 1987) Diagnostics and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: gender identity disorder (dsm-iv-tr) Classified with sexual disorders: gender dysphoria (dsm-v) Emotional distress over a marked incongruence between one"s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender. Consideration for inclusion in dsm: psychopathy (vs anti-social personality disorder) Colloquial definitions of a psychopath and a sociopath focus on a lack of conscience and a lack of remorse.