PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bobby Fischer, Psychopathology, Personality Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Giorgio Tasca

Document Summary

Some outliers are highly valued: mozart, olympic athletes, stephen. Hawkins, bobby fischer: subjective interpretation (psychological pain): Someone feel unhappy (not depression) and therefore seek therapy. Thus seek therapy: this way of defining of abnormality beings the majority of patients. What was adaptive once is maladaptive now: case, mary has a lot of social anxiety that interferes with developing romantic relationships and with her work. She may be diagnosed with social anxiety disorder: mary grew up in an abusive and chaotic family, the anxiety and need to (cid:498)blend into the woodwork(cid:499) may have been adaptive during her childhood and adolescence. Important to understand the context of behaviour and not just what the behaviour looks like currently. Schizophrenia: delusions, hallucinations, and very odd, eccentric ways of thinking: depression: significant information processing difficulties whereby individuals interpret and focus on only negative aspects of the world, the self, and the future, anxiety and ocd: rumination, neurocognitive disorders.