Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Dysthymia, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Major Depressive Episode

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Several possibilities to measure what is abnormal: personal values of diagnostician, expectations of culture in person lives in, expectations of person"s culture or origin, general assumptions on human nature, statistical deviation from norm, harmfulness, suffering and impairment. 2-4 focus on cultural beliefs on what is appropriate. Criterion 6 is what is used the most: 3 criteria in this. Deviance from the norms: governs decisions about abnormality. Abnormal behavior: behavior that is personally distressing, personally dysfunctional, and/or culturally deviant so that other people see it as inappropriate. Belief that abnormal behavior is caused by supernatural forces goes back to ancient chinese, egyptians, and hebrews: to release spirit did trephination. Sharp tool used to chisel hole about 2cm in diameter in skull. Medieval europe- abnormal people possessed by evil or made pact with evil. 16th and 17th centuries abnormal people = witches and hunted down and killed. Hippocrates mental illnesses were diseases: site of mental illness = brain.

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