Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Reserpine, Learned Helplessness, Explanatory Style

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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629-638: prior to the dsm, the distinction between a neurosis and a psychosis was based on problems of, anxiety vs thought disturbance. Anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (taken out from anxiety disorders on their own, ptsd (taken out from anxiety disorders on their own) Dissociative disorders: dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder. Mood disorders: major depression, bipolar disorder. Characterized by disturbance in mood (affect) rather than thought. Unipolar or major depression: patient experiences only the despair of depression, 10% of me, 20% of women. Bipolar (manic-depressive psychosis: patient sings from one extreme to the other (1%, about 10 episodes of each state during life, untreated, each phase can last months, rapid cycler (20%) 4 or more swings per year but some people shift daily (incredibly rare) Mania: problem, mild, maybe not, mental high gear, jumps from one thing to another, unable to sit still, jumps from unbounded elation to intense irritation, acute form.