PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Abnormal Psychology, Schizophrenia, Classical Conditioning
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Darwinian concept of fitness people who fit in well with their environment. When we cannot fit, a mental illness could be the issue. Back then, the schizophrenics would have been the witch doctors. Joan of arc may have been a schizophrenic, thinking that the angels were talking to her, and the public thought of her as a witch, and ultimately burned at the stage. Bedlum, an institution for the insane/people with mental illness, famous during the. In its most direct form, abnormal just means anything that deviates from the norm like me! A person can have these symptoms, but can function well in life. When psychic conflict is too strong for defence mechanisms to deal with in healthy ways, they may actually distort one"s perception of reality, or the person will function in ways reflective of an early developmental stages. Could be a symptom; find the source and eliminate it, the symptom goes away.
