PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Personality Disorder, Hallucination, Bipolar Disorder
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Psychology puzzle: diagnosing psychological disorders: diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders (dsm-iv) used to diagnose psychological disorders, dsm-iv: the manual that establishes criteria for the diagnosis of mental disorders. Involve persistent of maladaptive behaviour that are disturbing and difficult to change. 100(high level of function) to 1 (severely impaired function) Mental health in the public sphere: two mental health issue that affect the public sphere includes the insanity defense and public perception. The insanity defense cases: yale kill her children because she was depressed and felt that they were not growing up the way she wanted to, she was let go without any legal action because she was deemed insane. Jeffery dahmer killed 15 men and wanted to turn them into zombies and also had cannibal acts and sexual assault but he was not consider insane because he knew what he did was wrong.
