PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - List Of Memory Biases, Hypothalamus, Reuptake
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All human experiences have to do with the brain. Lecture notes 2/4/2014: this does not mean: That psychiatric disorders are caused by biology . That psychiatric disorders must be treated with medications or other biological interventions. That it adopts a biological reductionist view of disorders: the most important thing of a disorder is not necessarily genes or other biological factors, it can mean: The disorder itself at a biological level: cause, can have multiple levels of cause. Genes: entire understanding of the system provides a more accurate picture of reality than any individual portion. Systems theory: accepts reciprocal causality, accepts equifinality (multiple factors are the cause), but doesn"t assume it, every given disorder has multiple interactive contributors, the traditional paradigms, biological. There is nothing good about human beings. Psychiatric disorders come from conflicts with id, ego, and super ego. Id- wants, ego-what you can do, super ego-what you should do. Also caused by being stuck in fixation stage of development.
