PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Hallucination, Sickle-Cell Disease, Auditory Hallucination
9 Nov 2016
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A harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be all of these: Judged within culture in which it occurs. Disturbing - varies with time and culture. Unjustifiable - sometimes there"s a good reason. Harmful to person doing it or someone around them. Something is actually biologically wrong with the person. Mental disorders come from bad thoughts and bad behaviors. Ex: people developed sickle cell to avoid getting malaria. Freudian point of view - came when id, superego and ego have conflicts. People can"t have disorder just because you label them as having one. Lots of evidence that mental problems often associated with synaptic or axonal. Concept that diseases have physical causes malfunctions. Focuses on dysfunctional thought processes and changing maladaptive behaviors. Bad behaviors are hard to break and so are bad thinking habits. Bottom line: pathology has multiple causes (and psychological illness are real, not labels)
