PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Insanity Defense, Mental Disorder
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Mental illness or disorder: any one or combination of a large group of psychological states that impede health and human development to varying degrees. Intellectual disability: formerly called mental retardation, it refers to limitation in cognitive capacity, determined by iq tests and a variety of performance measures. Mental disorders are manifested in a variety of behaviours, ranging in severity from dangerous, harmful acts to conduct that is essentially innocuous. In a classic work, morse (1978) preferred the term crazy behaviour , which he characterized as behaviour that is obviously strange and unusual and cannot be logically explained. The concept of mental disorders connotes a wide range of bizarre, dramatic, harmful, or mildly unusual behaviours whose classifications are published in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm). Four categories most relevant to crime: (1) schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, (2) bipolar disorder, (3) major depression, (4) antisocial personality disorder. Persons with these disorders are not crime prone .
