PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Philippe Pinel, Mental Disorder, Moral Treatment
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Marked by a clinically defined disturbance (cog, behavior) Maladaptive: what is considered a significant disturbance has changed over the years. Strange behaviors thought to be the result of evil spirits. Therapies included beatings, mutilation, or transfusions of animal blood: philippe pinel. Moral treatment of patients: medical model (19th century) Biopsychosocial model iclicker: which of the following would be a social-cultural influence on psychological disorders: brain chemistry, stress level, definitions of normality, trauma, genetics. Shanghai: most common disorders in the united states, mood disorders, phobia, social anxiety, least common disorders in the us. Mood disorders: ocd, schizophrenia (1% prevalence across world, characterized by emotional extremes. Alternating between depression and mania: mania is not happiness- energized, over active, extreme, little need for sleep, loud, fast, flighty speech, extreme optimism; find advice irritating, can fuel creativity, affect men and women equally. Thought less prevalent than mdd, more disruptive: biological perspective.
