PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Evidence-Based Practice, Middle Ages, Lobotomy
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Psychological abnormality behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the ability. Mental illness used to convey the same meaning as psychological abnormality, Psychological disorder specific manifestation of this impairment of functioning. Psychopathy both the scientific study of psychological abnormality and the but it implies a medical rather than a psychological cause problems faced by people who suffer from such disorders. Personal distress: distress is not present for all people identified as abnormal, if distress passes within a reasonable amount of time, out response would be considered normal. Evidence from prehistory specialization in psychiatric problems on disordered clients. The arab world: the mentally disordered are treated with sympathy, asylums place of refuge and protection. Martin luther claimed that when people sinned in particularly bad ways, God would deliver them over to satan, who could possess them either corporally or spiritually: if the devil possessed them corporally, they would become mad, but if he possessed them spiritually, they should be considered witches.
