PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Personality Disorder, Endangerment, Intellectual Disability
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What is suppose to be done, conforming to society, regular, average, not strange. He shouldn"t have held up traffic/stood in the middle of the street. Has the right to believe what he wants but not to endanger the lives of others and be a burden to them. They didn"t have to send him to a mental hospital. Someone was acting crazy, and they sent them to the nut house . Abnormal any deviation from what most people do. Many psychologists believe there is an ideal way to function psychologically, just as other scientists believe there is a way to function physically. Minority stance agreement that claiming to be god or napoleon is abnormal. Psychologists remain unrivaled and sit uncomfortably in power of diagnoses as a result the patient suffers and worsens. Dsm - diagnostic and statistical manual of mental illness.
