PSY 1102 Lecture 13: PSY 1102 March 2nd lecture 13th

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

The scieniic study of mental illness, prevenion, causes, treatment and everything and anything else. Prevalence: 26% will experience in a year, 46% in a lifeime. Most people don"t get help: ignorance (don"t know they have it, don"t have the money, no resources where they live, sigma and judgment. Medical student syndrome (mss): when students are studying medicine they diagnose themselves with the informaion they learn, most of the ime they are wrong. The why determines how we treat it. Three perspecives: the demonic model: possessed by evil, demons or god created abnormal behaviors, medical perspecive: renaissance, move away from evil. Thought mental illnesses were like physical illnesses and that its physically and geneically based. Pinel, doctor of asylum, paients were chained in the cold basement. He ordered staf to change that and treat them like people. Syphilis: let untreated will damage mental funcion in the brain.