PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychopathy Checklist, Gender Dysphoria, Sexual Dysfunction

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

Document Summary

What does the behaviour look like: unconventionality and/ or irrational, statistical rarity. What is the outcome: maladaptive, to themselves and/ or others, distress, length and intensity, impairment, day to day functioning, risk of injury or harm. Need for a common shorthand: for research, for practice. Understanding the cause of the symptoms: symptom of grandiosity. Focus on a description of patterns of symptoms: behaviours, cognitions, emotions. Orgasm in women is abnormal (1800s) vs female orgasmic disorder (dsm-v) Homosexuality: removed from dsm-ii in 1973, sexual orientation disturbance (dsm-iii, 1980, ego- systemic and ego- alien, sexual disorder nos (dsm-iii-r, 1987) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: gender identity disorder (dsm-iv-tr, classified with sexual disorders, gender dysphoria (dsm-v) In its own chapter: 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)