01:830:340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Animal Magnetism, Moral Treatment, Psychoanalysis
6 Oct 2016
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The scientific study of abnormal behavior undertaken to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. Norm: stated and unstated rule for proper conduct. Behaviors, ideas or emotions usually have to cause distress before they can be labeled abnormal. Behavior is weird they think something and we think something else that we don"t like. Dysfunction: (interfering with persons ability to conduct daily activities in a constructive way) It so upsets, distracts, or confuses people that they cannot care for themselves properly, participate in prdinary social interactions or work productively. Consistenly, careless, hostile, or confused may be placing themselves or those around them at risk. Society cannot differ separating an abnormality that requires intervention from an eccentricity, an unusual pattern with which others have no right to interfere. We may think people with cats and no family are abnormal but to them its not. Treatment (therapy): procedure to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior.
