PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Thought Suppression, Operational Definition
16 May 2012
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The further you are removed from an event that causes an emotion, the less intense the emotion will be. About 4% of a population meets the diagnostic criteria for major depression. Faced with the same negative event, not everyone would become depressed, however. Morison believed that there was something about the appearance of the patient that could tell you something about what they had. Thinking about the causes of mental health conditions. This skull dates to several thousand years ago. It was believed that if you were suffering significantly for a long period of time, they thought that there were evil spirits trapped inside the head. So the most logical solution would be to provide an exit route for evil spirit. From a psychological standpoint, we know that we do not know a lot about what causes depression. We know that people who are depressed have usually gone through elements like the ones listed on the slides (life situations).
