PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Disorder, Dsm-5, Operational Definition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Martin Lalumiere

Document Summary

Note: only covering the topic of what a psychological disorder is in class, still responsible for the rest of the chapter. Ways for society to show displeasure when people are behaving differently than. Distress comes from a society that does not accept their differences and it is stress related to stigma and non-conformity. There is something that is happening in the person that really looks like what we think of when we define a disorder. It is so difficult to define what a mental disorder is, that we should just give up and avoid the whole notion of mental disorders and work on something else. They want to help the suffering person without worrying about them having a mental disorder or not. Believes that we are not going to find a definition to a mental disorder that everyone agrees on, so we should just give up. What the dsm uses to think of mental disorders.