PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Taijin Kyofusho, Pain Disorder, Mental Disorder

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Abnormal - anything of out the norm, definition varies. General criteria for mental disorder: suffering - if people suffer or experience psychological pain, we are inclined to consider this is indicative of abnormality. Epidemiology - study of distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-related behaviors in a given population. Ancient societies attributed abnormal behavior to - psychological disorders are experienced and managed differently among different cultures and cultures have differing idioms of distress. Hippocrates - suggested all illness as due to natural causes; importance of observing cases of abnormal behavior, developed first biogenic theory suggesting abnormalities of humors, one of first classification system. Plato - argued that care of mentally ill was a family responsibility and influenced the treatment located in retreats. Galen - greek physician that contributed the anatomy of the nervous system. He also divided causes of psychological disorders into physical and mental categories.

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