PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychopathology, Fluoxetine, Family Therapy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Depression affects 10% of the population, the common cold of psychopathology schizophrenia is one of the rarest mental illnesses. Simply bc women will talk about it & acknowledge that they have a problem while men wont. Men will turn to other things such as alcoholism. 4 possible causes of a disorder: germ genetics inheriting a disorder (schizophrenia) neurostructural ie) injury not depression neurochemical the neurotransmitters. Electroconvulsive theory ect not used anymore was common back in the day. Serotonin was given if they were depressed & suicidal. Freud looked at the diff between someone who is depressed & someone who is mourning. Negative thoughts about self low self esteem negative thoughts about ongoing experiences misinterpretation negative thoughts about the future hopelessness. Carl rogers client is the expert, not the doctor used media interview techniques : echoing. nudge the client to discovery instead of dictating them. Those with religious beliefs tend to do better than those who don"t.