PSY BEH 11C Chapter 14.1: Psychological Disorders - How Are Psychological Disorders Conceptualized and Classified? (Gazzaniga)
4 Mar 2017
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In 1793, philippe pinel, a french physician who believed that medical treatments should be based on empirical observations, became the head physician at bic tre hospital: jean-baptiste pussin treated his patients with kindness and care rather than with violence. Psychological disorders as maladaptive: behavior must always be reviewed in the context of the situation, many behaviors considered normal in one setting may be considered deviant in other settings. It remains the standard in psychology and psychiatry: the guiding principle is that if disorders can be grouped based on similar etiologies and symptoms, then figuring out how to treat those disorders should be easier. Just as the g dimension of intelligence reflects low to high cognitive abilities, the p dimension reflects low to high psychopathology severity. Research domain criteria (rdoc: the us national institute of mental health (nimh) has proposed an entirely new way of classifying and understanding psychological disorders, whereas the dsm approach classifies disorders by observable symptoms, the.
