PS280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Chlorpromazine, Psychoanalysis, Dementia
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv-tr) is most broadly accepted system for identifying particular types of disorders. International classification of mental and behavioural disorders (icd-10) is also used. Eccentric and unusual behaviour or beliefs aren"t necessarily abnormal according to diagnostic criteria: although the boundary between eccentricity and abnormality isn"t always clear. Behaviours that are repugnant and threatening to others (e. g. aggression and murder) are not always signs of underlying psychological disorder. Abnormal psychology takes a look at the different forms of abnormality, how people become abnormal, and what can be done to make their functioning normal. Psychological abnormality behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of him/her, in the context where the unusual functioning occurs. Mental illness often used to convey the same meaning as abnormal psychology, but it implies a medical rather than psychological cause.
