PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Dementia
Document Summary
Superstition: possession: exorcism, witchcraft: torture, affliction: prayer. Medical model: analogy by which abnormal behavior is treated as disease. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) published by american. Many new disorders reflect normal behavior: adhd; mathematics disorder; caffeine-induced sleep disorder, discarded diagnoses: drapetomania (made black slaves want to flee captivity); childhood masturbation disorder and homosexuality. Over-diagnosis: adhd affects 5-10% of school-age children. Axis i: clinical syndromes: disorders first diagnosed in infancy/childhood/adolescence (e. g. autism, adhd, organic mental disorders: dysfunction of brain functioning (e. g. dementia, organic amnesia) Ptsd: eating disorders: disturbances in eating and preoccupation with weight (e. g. anorexia, bulimia, sexual and gender identity disorders (e. g. paraphilia and sexual dysfunction) Paraphilia: atypical sexual arousal (objects, children, rape : somatoform disorders: somatic symptoms with no organic basis (e. g. hypochondriasis) Hypochondriasis: excessive fear/preoccupation with a serious illness despite medical testing: dissociative disorders: dysfunction of memory, consciousness and identity (e. g. dissociative identity disorder, non-organic (no associated with organ damage) amnesia)
