PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psyccritiques, Psychoanalysis, Brain Fever

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Huang

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You do - if you go seek help. Judge gets to decide - based on previous events. Why should we care if its normal or abnormal. For the sake of keeping society functioning we have to decide what is normal. Aspects of judging: dysfunction, behaviors thoughts and feeling interfere with ability of daily life, why is dysfunction not sufficient to define abnormality? i) If you miss school one day, why isn"t dysfunction? (1) other factors: many things we want to call a disorder might actually call be adaptive reactions (1) ex) calling in sick cause you have abusive workplace iii) The cause of the dysfunction may be largely external to the person: distress, behaviors and feelings that cause stress to the individual or others around him or her i) Intense emotional pain: why is distress not sufficient to define abnormality? i)