PSY240H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, Comorbidity
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Abnormal: abnormal psychology/clinical psychology/psychopathology all names for the field of study that is concerned with nature and development of abnormal affect (feelings/ emotions), behaviours (actions), and cognitions (thoughts). Abnormality is usually determined by the presences of several characteristics at one time: Mental health vs mental illness (if you have questions just google the video pretty simple. The history of mental illness and mental healthcare. Very early beliefs: earliest civilizations believed that mental disorders and strange behaviour were caused by the supernatural eclipses, earthquakes, storms, fires, diseases. Evil beings (e. g. the devil) can live within us and control out minds and bodies. Greek physician hippocrates (c. 460-377 bc) separated medicine from religion and superstition. Early proponent of somatogenesis - illness is caused by a physical problem with the body/brain (not psychic problems). He also classified mental illness into: mania, melancholia, phrenitis (brain fever) He had this idea that mental illness is a result of imbalances in the four bodily humours (fluids)
