PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anorexia Nervosa, Factitious Disorder, Therapeutic Relationship
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Psy100 psychological disorders lecture: defining abnormal behaviour, diagnosis, mental disorders. What should we be concerned about? depressive episode. No appetite and has lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks, has no interest in things that she used to enjoy. We would say this is abnormal: amy hasn"t been to work in 2 weeks, has no physical problems but has. But if he says that her mum died last week, then we wouldn"t really think it is abnormal anymore bc that"s how we might react as well. Give her time, and make sure this isn"t the start of some kind of. Maybe she is an adult actress, then it"ll be normal behaviour bc that"s. We don"t decide what"s moral and abnormal based on our morality, bc. Abnormal: paraphilia (sexual deviant disorder) it would require that the fetish object, in this case dresses up as a female, is the only thing that can help him achieve orgasm and erection.
