PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dsm-5, Psychopathy, Dysfunctional Family

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

A mental disorder characterized by alteration in perceptions, emotions, thoughts, or consciousness. Is primarily a brain disorder e. g. enlarged ventricles. Controversial disorder that is part of a broader group of dissociative disorders. Some suggest it should be included as a type of post traumatic stress disorder. People fake it to get out of the crimes they commit. Characterized by intereacting with the world in a maladaptive and inflexible ways, over a long term period of time, resulting in social/work problems and personal distress. Ususally last throughout the lifespan with no expectation of significant change (axis ii) ~identity: lack a strong sense of self, fear abandonment, can be very manipulative in their attempts to control relationships. ~impulsivity: self-mutation most common, also sexual promiscuity, physical fighting, binge eating and purging. Psychopaths represent the most extreme version of apd -->often superficially charming and rational, insincere, unsocial, incapable of love, lacking insight, shameless.