PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: World Health Organization, American Psychiatric Association, Sexual Fetishism
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Dsm 5 of the american psychiatric association: how we define abnormality is culturally relative, norms of a particular culture determine what is considered to be normal/abnormal behavior. International classification of mental and behavioral disorders (icd-10) Issued by world health organization (who: used by practitioners as well. Case 1: lisa would be classified as manifesting ocd, paul as having a paraphilia disorder (a fetishistic disorder, arnold as suffering from schizophrenia. Psychologically induced blindness, deafness or other apparent defects in perceptual/bodily processes. It only occurred in women due to a wandering uterus . Those that need to be hospitalized, he said their thinking must be rationally challenges in a conversational style of therapy similar to psychotherapy. The arab world: treatment was humane and environmental and psychological factors were emphasized. Psychological approaches: anton mesmer hysteria as a physiological explanation, his procedure involved patients being touched by mesmer and various rods that were to transmit a magnetic force called.
