PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Convenience Store, Sodomy, Histrionic Personality Disorder
27 May 2012
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Lecture 3 a psycho-biographical account of two female serial killers (may 15th) Start off your paper with a definition of what your chosen psychopathology is! Icd-10: dsm-iv-tr, hare"s psychopathy checklist, malignant narcissism. Systematic use of psychological (especially personality) theory to transform a life into a coherent and illuminating story. Good psychobiography includes: physiological (e. g. influence of biochemicals on development rarely available, psychological (e. g. perceptions of reality, perceptions are very individual, e. g. ) person said they were horribly abused b/c his brother called him names. To some, this is not abuse, but for this person it was: sociological (e. g. childhood development, zeitgeist) Freud"s psychobiography of da vinci based on incorrect interpretations of kite . Freud based work on a bird rather than a toy. Making examples fit" objectives subjective bias (this is what we want for our psychobiography) What is psychopathy: a personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective and behavioural characteristics .
