PSY230H1 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 Notes
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Rogers: there are diseased models of psychopathology, sometimes considered an illness. Symptom constellation of schizophrenia can be produced by damage to specific parts of the brain. During depression: we know that serotonin levels drop, and it"s consequences, but is this an illness: ex. Primate at bottom of hierarchy is stressed, may develop ulcers, does this consitute illness: what an illness is is not clear, mental illness is obscure subcategory of a category that"s already obscure. A criminal is low in agreeable and conscientiousness. Illness is multidimensional; has to do with current state of function and surrounding community. Multiple personality disorder: has cycled historically for 400 years. When freud was alive, there were many female hysterics: this doesn"t happen anymore, people starting to doubt if they even existed in. Don"t except an illness to be culturally malleable: difficult to determine what causes undesirable states of being .
