PSYCH101 Study Guide - Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: n.a

Document Summary

Week 8-clinical psychology i: clinical psychology i: psychological disorders. Phobias: irrational fear, fairly common condition, phobias are quite treatable. Generalized anxiety disorder-panic disorder: overwhelming sense of anxiety, not localized as being caused by any particular thing, can become quite debilitating, associated with panic attacks. Cant do anything else while experiencing one: agoraphobia. Fear of open places, of being out in the world. Fear of having panic attack, while outside of their home. Cases where individuals have not left homes for 20 years: obsessive compulsive disorder. Can vary from mildly obsessive to extremely obsessive and completely debilitating. Two things that characterize obsessive compulsive disorder. Psychoanalytic perspective: need therapy to solve some deep lying problem which is causing the disorder, little hans. Has anxiety arising from oedipus complex which was being transferred onto horses. Terrified that his father will castrate him due to sexual desire for his mother.