PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dick Day, Social Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
16 Feb 2016
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We consider most behaviour to be normal, or at least the product of a sound. Most personality theorists and mental health professionals argue that there is. The behaviour of individual ranges from shy, introverted and withdrawn to extroverted free-spending egoists mind. However we call some people crazy or mentally ill no clear dividing line between normal and pathological it is a continuum. Impairment criterion: symptoms impair social, occupational, or other domains of functioning must be a danger (extreme form of impairment: what about symptoms that only have the potential to lead to. Personal distress criterion: symptoms cause significant concern for the impairment or disability? individual: if the symptoms bother you then they are pathological (but some do not qualify, ex. shyness) Much criteria is based on statistical criteria. Could someone be dangerous to self or others, but not impaired and: ex. Terrorists are healthy despite wanting to kill other people.
