Psychology 2310A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
27 Oct 2016
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Psychological disorder: behaviour, speech or thought impairing functionality. Mental illness: implies medical perspective; schizophrenia (biological route) Lunatic, idiot: put downs, lunatic = someone with mental disorder/ idiot = developmental delay. Difficulties in defining abnormality: no characteristic that is both necessary & sufficient. Necessary: present in abnormal ppl & sufficient: absent in normal ppl. Mental health care in canada: treatment slow in coming to ca & ewen cameron: brainwashing experiments for cia. Widespread use of lobotomies till early 70"s mandatory sterilization of mentally ill/retarded in alberta. Historical views: supernatural - spiritual witch hunts; demon possession; treatment = exorcism, prayers by priests, biological/medical - somatogenesis (cause is biological/physiological) treatment = medication. Hippocrates; blood=sanguine/cheerful, phlegm=phlegmatic/tired, yellow bile=choleric & black=melancholic. Early classification = mania, melancholia, phrenitis (high energy, low energy, delirium) Paracelsus: disturbance in spiritus vitae: used hypnotism + moon influenced behaviour & coined the term lunatic . Johannes weyer: natural causes (ointments) krafft ebbing gave syphilis to ppl w general paresis.
