PS101 Lecture Notes - Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Didn"t believe in the idea of mental health/disorders. His mother was distant, and his parents had a weird relationship thought it maybe came down to dysfunctional families (parents) Laing believes that psychiatry today focuses on making everybody the same take a pill and it will fix everyone to make everyone the same. Mood disorder: disturbance in mood ranging from extreme depression to extreme mania. Mood disorder involving disturbance in emotion, behavior, cognition and body function. Mood disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania (excessive euphoria) occur. Vulnerability-stress model approaches that emphasize how individual vulnerabilities interact with external stresses or circumstances to produce mental disorder vulnerability with emotional distress. A pattern in personality that involved unchanging maladaptive traits that cause great distress or an inability to get along with others. May have a hard time getting along with others. Not caused by medical conditions, stress, or situations that involve temporary changes in behavior.
