PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Major Depressive Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Bipolar Disorder

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7 Dec 2018
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Defined by social norms, value judgements and even politics. Drapetomania: an obsessive desire for freedom that drove slaves to flee from capacity (slaves that wanted to escape were mentally ill) **does not exist anymore. Self-defeating/masochistic personality: refers to people who repeatedly involve themselves in hurtful circumstances or relationships, mostly women. Critics protested that it would label women who remain in abusive relationships as mentally ill and thereby shift the blame to them and away from the abuser. Three d"s of abnormality: distressing, dysfunctional, deviant. Distressing to self and to others judgement of abnormality dysfunctional for person or society or deviant: violates social norms. The dsm-v (the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) Objective/behavioral criteria to ensure reliability in diagnoses (over time and between clinicians) Ex: sample diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder . A) most of every day for at least two weeks. Move onto b if all of a is met. Three components: cognitive component, physiological component, behavioral.

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