PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Personality Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Psychopathology
13 Apr 2017
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History of the dsm: dsm-i (1952) Highly psychoanalytical and very descriptive- 60 diagnoses: dsm-ii (1968) Very similar and few changes; very slow to get around behaviourism and role of learning; including very few diagnoses: dsm-iii (1980) Psychiatric disorders (depression and anxiety is that these things go away, we can medicate 2. Unchanging disorders (mental retardation, and personality disorders- assumption that we can"t make intellectual disability get better but not for kids 3. Whole new addition continued with the multiaxial system separating mental disorders from mental retardation and personality disorder; codes for psychological and environmental factors. Providing a score of function or severity; but criticism 1. Across community of people that provide services to mental health too much heterogeneity across the disorders (defining specific criteria, not 57 ways of having depression 2. Dsm is ignoring the development context- did not address the changes over time or any modifications, child hood bipolar disorder was really heated 3.
