PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Blood Sugar, Mood Disorder, Syphilis
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Medication is a solution to all problems. Influence of medical model so powerful: mind and body dualism. Look at individual not just the disease. Can be reduced to chemical and physiological processes. What works for one doesn"t work for everyone. The problem with one person isn"t the same for all. Not one factor that induces a certain problem: illness vs. health. More emphasis on illness instead of health. Statistical: in middle normal, extreme scores abnormal, inequality of extremes, one symptom at a time, one extreme insane and other sane. Subjective discomfort: person"s reaction to the illness is different for each person, ignores social consequences of behaviour, person saying i don"t feel well , admitting your illness, good place to start. Social non-conformity: measure of abnormal how do you deal with a cultural innovator, chaos non-conformity not mentally ill, criminals are non-conform they know what they are doing they aren"t ill. Three criteria in determining abnormality in student population.
