PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Liver Disease, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Mental Disorder
Document Summary
Mental disorders have at the heart that people have abnormal thoughts and behaviours, not entirely clear what abnormal refers to. Many theories of what a person is and looks like, but all of these standards together is a depiction of functioning which none of us can achieve, meaning we are all abnormal. Abnormality is what is personally distressing about us, this definition covers a lot of ground, almost every disorder in encyclopaedia or dictionary involves a type of distress. Problem is its almost all, there are occasions where there are abnormal behaviours where there is no distress, for e. g. narcissism, abnormal behaviour in which narcissists aren"t bothered by their behaviour, odd but not distressing to the person. Narcissistic personality disorder, they are not bothered about it, but their attitude annoys everyone else that makes him abnormal, similar with anti-personality disorder.
