PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychopathology, Karen Horney, Countertransference
11 Feb 2015
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Another view is that your behavior is abnormal if you are violating social norms, even if some people are sympathetic to your point of view this definition is very useful in considering important cultural differences in psychological disorders: i. e. entering a trance and believing you are possessed would suggest mental disorder in most western cultures, but in many other societies the behavior is accepted and expected. Masai tribe in east africa robert sapolsky (2002: woman was acting aggressively, hearing voices, and killed a goat with bare hands, sapolsky asked member of the tribe what they believed to be wrong with the woman, they responded, as if it were obvious, that she was crazy because only men were supposed to kill goats and she heard voices at the wrong time, this proves that social standards associated with what is normal have been misused.
