FSC350H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deep Brain Stimulation, Psychopathy, Mental Disorder
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Cure: treatment relates to intervention with, psychology and behaviours, symptoms and signs, clinicians are concerned with well-being, curing relates to, eradicating the cause for the malady (e. remove inflamed appendix, cures are rare in mental illness. Indeed, psychopaths are typically described (eg. in the pcl-r) as having major impairments in terms of moral psychology and social orientation: psychopaths are believed to be (cid:494)amoral(cid:495) or (cid:494)without conscience(cid:495) Treating (cid:498)global(cid:499) disorder (cid:523)continued(cid:524: many treatment options are often boosting existing dispositions/functions, eg. To a degree where they may be exonerated: nucci & elliot found that children intuitively make this distinction, in their study they would ask school children about different scenarioes of transgressions: )mmorality doesn(cid:495)t imply illegality (cid:523)ie. not everything that is immoral is unlawful) Some pushbacks to shoemaker is whether it is a reasonable proposition: are psychopaths really morally blind, well, the blindness-metaphor is often used in the literature (e. g. hare, 1993); the question.
