PSYC 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Availability Heuristic, Hypochondriasis, Panic Attack
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Psychopathology mental illness (failure to adapt to the environment) Middle ages demonic model for mental illness; witches and demons. Medical model mental illness is a physical disorder that needs treatment; renaissance; sometimes brutality occurred; asylums; pinel and dix created moral treatment where those with mental disorders are treated well; effective treatments were kind of nonexistent still though. Psychiatric diagnoses have two big functions: pinpoint a person"s problem and communicate with other. Involuntary commitment procedure of placing some people with mental illnesses in a psychiatric hospital. Xii. based on their danger to others or themselves, or inability to care for themselves. Anxiety is the most prevalent of all mental disorders; 29 percent. Somatoform disorders condition marked by physical symptoms that suggest an underlying medical. Xxii. illness, but that are actually psychological in origin. Hypochondriasis an individual"s continual preoccupation with the notion that he has a serious physical disease.
