PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Comorbidity, Antipsychotic, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Chapter 1: introduction: definitional and historical considerations and canada"s mental health system. Psychopathy the field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behaviour, thoughts, and feelings. Abnormal behaviour patterns of emotion, thought and action deemed pathological for one or more of the following reasons: infrequent occurrence, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or dysfunction and unexpectedness: statistical infrequency. Abnormal behaviour is infrequent in the general population. Normal curve the bell-shaped distribution of a measurable trait depicting most people in the middle and few at extremes. Normal = does not deviate much from the average of a trait/behaviour. Diagnoses mental retardation diagnoses through low iq below 70. But only certain infrequent behaviours are studied (not great athletic ability) infrequency doesn"t help determine which behaviours to study: violation of norms. Violates social norms threatens or makes anxious those observing it. Eg. anti-social behaviour of psychopath, complex rituals of ocd, conversations with imaginary voices of psychotic person.