PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syphilis, Neurosis, Wrong Turn
27 Feb 2018
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Not dealing with assessment or treatment in detail. The more experience you have, the less certain you are about diagnosis. Rettew et al. (2009) meta-analysis of agreement between clinical diagnosis and research diagnosis. Agreement (kappa) low to moderate for most disorders. Samuel (2015): survey of studied comparing reliability of personality disorder diagnoses. Symptoms impair social, occupational or other domains of functioning. No clear line between normalcy and disorder. Abnormality based on agreement of psychologists and psychiatrists. Pressures to include symptoms as disorders in dsm. So that people can get treatment covered by insurance. That"s (cid:449)hy a la(cid:271)el is (cid:374)eeded for disorders. Abnormality caused by physical problems in the brain. All mental disorders are fundamentally and basically due to physical malfunctions in the body, therefore appropriate treatments are physical treatments. Began with relationship between syphilis and mental symptoms. Mad hatter: hatters went crazy after a few years in the industry. Was because of mercury/poison with which they worked.
