PSYCH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychomotor Agitation, Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymia

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Sigma associated with mental illness (example: ambulances not atending to mentally ill calls) Social power issues (ussr ani-socialist personality disorder; us, drapetomania, or running away from slaves, cartwright) Dsm i (1952) and dsm ii (1968): psychodynamic in nature, neglected social context, roughly. 150 illnesses, low inter-rater reliability, writen by pracicing clinicians, litle symptom detail. Dsm iii: more medical and symptomaic in its approach, employed diagnosic algorithms of hierarchical exclusion (decision trees), 250 disorders with more clarity, muliaxial approach that encouraged holisic evaluaion, theoreical agnosicism with regards to eiology. Dsm iii-r and dsm iv: movement towards prototype approach, difuse diagnoses that relaxed the hierarchy approach, includes culture speciic syndromes and more disorders generally. Dsm v (2013): ditched muliaxial approach, tried to limit categorizing new disorders, lower diagnosic thresholds, and not enough ield validaion. Future consideraions: dimensional approaches, borrow from personality psych (tesing, degrees of neuroicism, and so on)

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