PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emil Kraepelin, Antipsychotic, Abraham Maslow
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Identify your personal attitudes/beliefs: educate yourself, choose your words/actions carefully, support community initiatives advocating mental health issues, practice compassion and support. Elephant in the room campaign: mood disorders society of canada national campaign to address the elephant in the room: mental illness, raise awareness, spark conversations. Major paradigms: biological (medical, behavioural (learned behaviour, cognitive (thinking processes, psychodynamic (unconscious processes, humanistic, social construction. Biological paradigm: based on the somatogenic hypothesis (relating to the human/animal body) Induce changes brain chemistry that reduce symptoms of mental illness: practice of lobotomy, psychiatric drugs 1950s. Biological/medical perspective: abnormality (mental disorder) is caused by a biological disorder or physical illness (aberrant or defective biological processes, often referred to as the medical model or disease model. Infections, neurotransmitters: focus on genetics, physics, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, biochemistry (chemical imbalances) Genetics (behavioural genetics: study of individual differences in behaviour attributable to differences in genetic makeup, genotype, the total genetic makeup of a person, fixed at birth, (not necessarily static)
