PSYA02H3 Lecture : For lectures 27-31 on chapter 17, video notes included, lecture 32 not included
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Chapter 17 the nature and causes of psychological disease. There is a wide variety of psychological disorders. Classifying them is a prerequisite to organized diagnosis and treatment. The american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical manual iv (dsm-iv) is the most commonly used classification scheme. Psychosis: severe disturbance of thought and emotion with loss of contact with reality (schizophrenia); their mental space is not driven by what most people would consider to be reality. Slide 4: anxiety: an emotion that is experienced in anticipation of danger. (like fear, but fear is experienced in the face of perceived danger). Anxiety is a more diffused emotional reaction; exists in various forms. (some) forms of anxiety disorders: Agoraphobia (with panic attacks), generalized anxiety disorder (gad), hypochondriasis, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) www. notesolution. com. Agoraphobics stay away from public places from fear of having panic attacks. In greek: agoraphobia means fear of the marketplace .
