PSC 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Dsm-5, Heredity
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Abnormal behavior: statistical deviation: based on relative frequency abnormality defined as deviation, deviations from ideal mental health as defined by some theory or school of thought. Illness is psychological the disease itself: symptoms of schizophrenia vary across cultures, distress (physical or psychological pain)- experienced pain and suffering usually content of auditory/visual hallucinations are different motivating person to seek help. Even here there can be important individual and cultural differences. and important roles: deviance- unusual or rare experiences which usually are distressing. Surgeon general: abnormal behavior departs from some norm and harms the what one person perceives as illness may not be what another person symptoms, no clear distinction between normal and abnormal (will act. Mentally disturbed were seen as organically cause and. Incurable. developments: major changes and shift in psychiatric care in 1950s and 1960s due to 3. Maxwell jones and others introduced concept of therapeutic community in psychotropic medication controlled symptoms; patients could function in their communities.
