PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Masturbation
16 May 2016
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Psychopathology is all the result of some kind of trauma or stress. You can either identify with the aggressor or you can take a victim role. This has implications on personality development. persistent social or emotional disturbance child does not seek help child has experienced patterns of extreme deficiencies in care from adults. She wants to kill her brother because she doesn"t want to be around people. At 19 months, beth and jonathan had severe emotional problems. Beth had a nightmare that her birth father touched her vagina until it bled. In her nightmare, she"s alone in the house upstairs and she is scared. Beth endured neglect and abuse as a child. She would perform inappropriate sexual acts with her brother. She sais she would like to do that to other boys. Beth says she sticks her animals in the pants and she does that to try and kill them. She took knives from the drawer and dishwasher.
