PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychogenic Amnesia, Psychosis, Hypochondriasis

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert Thunhurst

Document Summary

Causes trouble in daily like for the person or for others. Trephination or trepanning- let out the (cid:862)e(cid:448)il spi(cid:396)its(cid:863) Somatic treatments: affect the body to treat the mind. Having normal people going into institutions, started hearing voices, after 7 weeks they were diagnosed with schizophrenia in remission. Study shoes power of labeling: once the label of schizophrenia was applied the pseudo-patients, they started to act like they were schizophrenic. Rates on psychological disorders: 1 in 4 americans suffer from psychological disorder in a given year, poverty increase vulnerability to psychological disorders, psychological disorders tend to strike by early adulthood (-age 24) Anxiety and anxiety -related disorders (neuroses) (cid:862)(cid:396)elati(cid:448)ely(cid:863) (cid:373)ild: anxiety related, no loss of touch with reality. Fear of aliment anxiety or anxiety aliment: hypochondriasis- fear of having contracted something, somatization disorder- complaints of bodily illness with no physiological reason, conversion disorder- anxiety causes apparent, genuine physical dysfunction. Dissociative disorders (psychoses: severe, delusions and hallucinations.