PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Bipolar Disorder, Asthma, Panic Disorder
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The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease: the medical model gradually became the dominant way of thinking about abnormal behaviour during the 18th and 19th centuries, and its influence remains strong today, people who behaved strangely were thought to be possessed by demons, to be witches in league with the devil, or to be victims of god"s punishment, the rise of the medical model brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behaviour, a particularly vocal critic has been thomas szasz (1974, 1990). Mental illness and violence concluded that the strongest predictor of violence was past violence and that there was no consistent evidence that psycho logical disorders uncomplicated by substance abuse are a significant risk factor for violence, once you control for past history of violence: people with psychological disorders behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal people.
