PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tricyclic Antidepressant, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Psychoanalysis
Document Summary
Paradigm: conceptual framework or approach within which a scientist works. Can have a profound impact on the patient. E. g. a person with major depressive disorder will get different advice from a humanist than from a psychiatrist. Humanist will not give any labels, and will accept the person for who they are, maybe suggest therapy. Psychiatrist will diagnose major depressive disorder and would treat the disorder with psychopharmacology. Patient will respond to one approach better than the other. 19th century most popular paradigm was psychoanalytic therapy. Biological approaches are now more popular due to changing technology. Paradigms differ in different places in the world, different cultures. Biological paradigm: behaviour genetics study of individual differences in behaviour that are attributable to one"s genetic makeup. Genotype versus phenotype genotype is our total genetic makeup; includes all of our unobservable genes at birth (fixed). The fixed genes are always there, however it depends on many different factors whether or not it is actually expressed.
