PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bulimia Nervosa, Moral Treatment, Deinstitutionalisation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Defining mental disorder: emotional suffering caused by the behaviour, whether behaviour is harmful to others/society, its degree of harmful dysfunction. Demonic model: view of mental illness where odd behaviour was attributed to evil spirits in the body. Medical model: perception that mental illness was due to physical disorder requiring treatment ex: governments housing in asylums (snake pits, bloodletting as treatment) New developments: moral treatment: approach to mental illness calling for kindness/respect for mentally ill, deinstitutionalization (60s/70s): gov policy focusing on releasing the patients to community & closing the hospitals. Classification criteria: subjective distress, impairment, societal disapproval, biological dysfunction, family resemblance view: mental disorders don"t all have one thing in common, rather they share a loose set of features. Mental illness: bio-psychosocial model says there is not one single factor or event that causes a psychological disorder, it is biological makeup, psychological experiences and social environment.