PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Major Depressive Disorder, David Rosenhan, Bipolar Disorder

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 101
• Professor: Christian August Meissner

Document Summary

How do we diagnose a disorder the dsm. Pros and cons of diagnosing mental disorders. Mood disorder specifics: types and genetic vs other influences. Anxiety disorder specifics: types and causes; focus on ocd. Psychological disorders are: patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. Disorder refers to a state of mental/behavioral ill health. Patterns refers to finding a collection of symptoms that tend to go together, and not just seeing a single symptom. For there to be distress and dysfunction, symptoms must be sufficiently severe to interfere with one"s daily life and well being. There is enormous overlap in the behaviors of the sane and the insane. The sane are not sane" all of the time. We lose our tempers for no good reason. " we are occasionally depressed or anxious, again for no good reason similarly, the insane are not always insane. (rosenhan, 1973)