PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Binge Eating Disorder, Reuptake, Confidence Trick

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Marcel Viens

Document Summary

Psychological disorders: patterns of thoughts, feelings or actions that are deviant, distressful and dysfunctional. Standards for deviant behaviour vary by culture, context and time. It is heritable and treatable with ritalin and adderall. Phillipe pinel insisted madness is not demon possession but a sickness of the mind. Did moral treatment by unchaining them and filling with gentleness, activity. Needs to be diagnosed on the basis of symptoms and treated. All behaviour arises from the interaction of nature and nurture. Helps assess the whole set of influences including genetic predispositions and physiological states inner psychological dynamics, social and cultural circumstances. The person talk incoherently, hallucinates or has delusions, shows either little or inappropriate emotion or is socially withdrawn. A person is continually tense, uneasy and in a state of ans arousal. Symptoms: jittery, agitated, sleep deprived, concentration is difficult, trembling, perspiration. Two thirds are women, according to freud anxiety is free-floating. Can lead to physical problems such as blood pressure.