PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Philippe Pinel, Frontal Lobe, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behaviors are labeled as disordered (comer, 2004). To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal (william james (1842-1910) There are 450 million people suffering from psychological disorders (who, 2004). Depression and schizophrenia exist in all cultures of the world. Psychological disorders - persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and actions: deviant behavior (going naked) in one culture may be considered normal, while in others it may lead to arrest, deviant behavior must accompany distress. If a behavior is dysfunctional it is clearly a disorder. Ancient treatments - trephination, exorcism, being caged like animals, being beaten, burned, castrated, mutilated, or transfused with animal"s blood. When physicians discovered that syphilis led to mental disorders, they started using medical models to review the physical causes of these disorders. The american psychiatric association - diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) to describe psychological disorders: describe (400) disorders, determine how prevalent the disorder is.
