PSYC 3100 Lecture 32: PSYC3100 Lecture 32: PSYC3100: December 2, 2015
2 Dec 2015
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Mental disorder = harmful dysfunction where there is culture. [1] dysfunction when a cognitive or emotional capacity fails to perform its natural biological function (e. g. normal perception vs hallucinatory perception is perception of optical illusions a metal disorder then?) Has to make sense for these capacities to have natural biological functions. Wake eld"s claim is that we need a hybrid account of mental disorder. [2] the dysfunction is harmful (to individual, environment), relative to a present, particular. There is a value component speci ed in terms of harm. There is a factual component speci ed in terms of normal biological function. Cannot de ne it in terms of purely factual components or pure value judgments. Distinction between an adaptation and something being adaptive as well. Adaptation: it has been naturally selected for (biological component) In that original environment it is adaptive - it ts that environment.
