PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Somatic Symptom Disorder
17 Apr 2017
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Chapter 15: psychological disorders when adaptation breaks down. Describe conceptions of diagnoses across history and cultures. Identify common misconceptions about psychiatric diagnoses, and the strengths. Many psychopathology researchers adopt a failure analysis approach to mental disorders. Can"t rely on statistical rarity to define mental disorder. Mental disorders emotional pain for individuals afflicted with them. Most mental disorders interfere with people"s ability to function in everyday life. The presence of impairment by itself can"t define mental illness. Mental disorder may result from breakdown or failure of physiological systems. Unlikely that any one criterion distinguishes mental disorders from normality. Family resemblance view; they look like each other but don"t have any one feature in common. The broad category of mental disorders may be similar. Different mental disorders aren"t alike in the same exact way, but they share a number of features. Historical conceptions of mental illness: from demons to asylums. Middle age viewed mental illnesses through the lens of a demonic model.
