PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Somatic Symptom Disorder, Thomas Szasz, Mental Disorder
15 Jun 2013
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Criteria of abnormality statistical criterion: extreme deviations from the statistical norm sociocultural criterion: extreme or important violations of social or cultural expectations. Adjustment criterion: danger to self or others. Personal disturbance criterion: symptoms cause significant concern for the individual. Sociocultural criteria cultural standards vary across time cultures differ in what they consider acceptable if disorders are brain-based, they cannot be culturally relative. But on the other hand: there are culture-specific disorders. Thomas szasz all mental illness cultural. No clear line between normalcy and disorder. Pressures to include symptoms as disorders in dsm. Abnormality" based on agreement of psychologists and psychiatrists. Abonormality caused by physical problems in the brain. Began with relationship between syphilis and mental symptoms. Basis for pharmacological and physical treatments terminology: sick", mental illness", nervous berakdown". Abnormal thoughts, behaviours, caused by unconscious conflict. Candidate disorders: anxiety disorder (neurosis), dissociative treatment brings conflicts into consciousness disorders, somatoform disorders.
