PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sigmund Freud, Mental Disorder, Biopsychosocial Model
29 May 2016
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Early views of mental disorders held to the somatogenic hypothesis, which perceives the disorders as the result of a specific injury or infection. Sigmund freud, in contrast, argued for the psychogenic hypothesis, which considers mental disorders to be rooted in psychological processes. Modern theorists describe mental disorders using a diathesisstress model, with thediathesis creating the predisposition toward mental disorder, and the stressproviding a trigger that turns the risk into the actual disorder. However, the fact that multiple factors often give rise to both diathesis and stress has led theorists to propose a multicausal model guided by a biopsychosocial viewpoint. A diagnosis is generally made with reference to the categories identified in thediagnostic and statistical. The prevalence of a disorder refers to how widespread it is. The axis i classifications in the dsminclude the more familiar categories of mental disorders; axis ii classifications describe various personality disorders.
