Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Mental Disorder, Psychotherapy, Deinstitutionalisation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

There is an assumption that they are always strange and weird. The reality is, most of the people in a psychiatric hospital are calm and quite reasonable. Even people who suffered from severe psychotic disorders (such as schizophrenia) where. I. e. , if we go into a psychiatric hospital, everyone will be out of their minds they function quite normally, and just have periods of time ( episodes ) where they lose touch with reality and think in strange ways. People with mental illnesses are not that different from the rest of us. View that abnormal and normal are radically different. Either you re normal or sick ; however, the two really blend into each other. It is really on a dimension- on one end, people are emotionally healthy and on the other end are the people who have a lot of psychological difficulties.