PSYC 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Anxiety Disorder, Habituation, Panic Disorder
14 Oct 2018
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What is abnormal: what is abnormal, not normal, average, typical, or usual, synonyms: all negative. Extreme or excessive, defective, aberrant: abnormal psychology, deals with modes of behavior, mental phenomena, etc. that deviate markedly from the standards believed to characterize a well-adjusted personality. If someone is engaging in irregular abnormal behavior, you look at it as them being defective, it is their fault. If you engage in irregular abnormal behavior, you blame an external factor for your behavior. It is really up to society to decide. Szasz finds the whole concept of mental illness to be invalid, a myth of sorts: deviations called "abnormal" are only "problems of living" Few categories of abnormality are as clear-cut as they seem; most continue to be debated by clinicians. Spirit possession: trephination (trepanation, bore hole in skull (frontal lobe) to let the demons out. Sometimes worked because if you bear hole in frontal lobe, sometimes it works: ancient china, yin and yang.
