PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Fugue State, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Psychological disorders are often violent and dangerous, & people with psychological. Disorders behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal people: david rosenhan = did experiment where it is hard to distinguish normality from abnormality in. People: psycho-diagnosis: classification of disorders, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) current classification. Time period: about 45% of population has a mental disorder sometime during their lives, anxiety disorders, anxiety disorder class of disorder marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and. Anxiety: generalized anxiety disorder marked by chronic, high level of anxiety that is not. Tied to any specific threat: phobic disorder marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that. Presents no realistic danger: panic disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that. Usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly: agoraphobia fear of going out to public places, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) marked by persistent, uncontrollable. Intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless.