PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Auditory Hallucination, Anxiety Disorder
13 Jan 2018
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Your uncle consumes a quart of whiskey per day; he has trouble recognizing people. Your neighbour sweeps, washes and scrubs the driveway daily. Your cousin is pregnant, and she is dieting (800 calories per day) so that she will not get "too fat" with the pregnancy. A 10 year old wants to have his entire body tattooed. The widow appears to talk to herself in the yard, doesn"t wash herself or dress in clean clothes, and has evidently lost a lot of weight. A person experiences several unexpected panic attacks each week, but it otherwise happily married, functions well at work, and leads an active recreational lifestyle. A 35 year old happily married man enjoys wearing women"s clothes and underwear on weekends when he and his wife go out. Many de nitions have been proposed over history yet none have been accepted universally. There is an ongoing debate in the eld of psychiatry and clinical psychology.
