PSY 101 Lecture 4: Psych Notes Part IV
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Superstitious: feel that something is living in someone"s body. Religious: feel like satan is living in someone"s body. Psychological disorders: pre-1960"s: based on magical thinking. Prompted trephining as treatment: drilling of a hole in the skull in theory to let the demon/spirits out: edward kienholz the state hospital environmental artist, post-1960"s: source of mental problems/medical model of disorder . 1940"s: had a job in a mental hospital. Depicted mental ward environment (it was awful. Patients were chained to thin, uncomfortable beds, had a little bucket as a restroom, in a tiny area. ) gain technology and look for sources, start realizing that it has no ethnicity/iq/etc. bias. Diagnostic tools: interviews (frequent) / observations / testing. Criteria: deviant / dysfunctional / demand (to be diagnosed from the client or court) / danger (to others or to the self [can be involuntarily committed apa tends to fall on more conservative side])
