PS101 Lecture Notes - Ghost Sickness, Drapetomania, Anxiety Disorder
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Any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual suffering self-destructive, impairs the person"s ability to work or get along with others, or endangers others or the community. Whether person is aware of consequences and can control their behavior. Mental health is not the same as insanity. Mental disorder as a violation of cultural standards. Mental disorder of behavior that is self-destructive or harmful of others. Disorders are classified using the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) The dsn must have the disorder in the book or you will not get insurance and you it won"t be considered a disorder. Supporters of new categories answer that it is important to distinguish disorders precisely. Critics point to economic reasons: diagnoses are needed for insurance reasons so therapists will be compensated. Defenders agree that boundaries between normal problems and mental disorders are fuzzy and difficult to determine.