PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Panic Disorder, Trepanning, Thought Disorder
Document Summary
Used trephining to dig hole for demons to escape brain. Hippocrates denounced this with the 4 humors. Catholic church brings back spiritual view of behaviour with idea of evil spirits. Neurosis - no lost reality, but strong personal distress. Psychosis - lost perception of reality, often requiring hospitalization, serious everyday life impairment. Statistics - if frequency of behaviour is normal when compared to others. Social norm deviance - society"s standards (need to know full story to make assessment) Maladaptive - how the behaviour impairs function w/in society. Dsm 5 (classification system) and icd (international classification of diseases) Chronic, resulting in lack of sleep, nausea, sweating. Recurrent, unpredictable, characterized by uncontrollable shaking & feeling of being smothered, strong social + health implications: phobias. Persistent fear of object/situation w no validation: ocd. Obsessive thoughts, compulsive, ritualistic activities to ease discomfort/danger: ptsd. Severe anxiety from trauma, can transport back to time of event.
