Abnormal Psychology Flashcards
Theory of Hippocrates
Four humors/bodily fluids Blood = Sanguine Black bile = Melancholic Yellow bile = Choleric Phelgm = Phelgmatic
True or False: Hippocrates and his followers rejecting the prevailing notion that illness was divine or sacred origin
True
History: He said that there are 4 humors/bodily fluids involved in formation of illness
Hippocrates (4th Century)
History: He had an anatomical approach on disease and body structure. He coined he term pathology
Jean Fernel (1497-1588)
History: He made a classification system through symptomatology
Felix Platter (1536-1614)
History: During this century, physicians and neurologist create a taxonomic system with irreducible and constant units
Late 17th Century
History: Created a system based on detailed observation consisted of 10 classes, 40 orders, 78 genera, 2400 distinct diseases
Francois Baussier de Sauvages (18th Century)
Differentiate symptoms and disease
Symptoms = observable manifestations Disease = impairment of normal state
History: Developed the first workable psychiatric nosography
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826)
What are the 5 forms of insanity described by Philippe Pinel?
- Mania
- Melancholia with delirium
- Melancholia without delirium
- Dementia
- Idiotism
T or F: Pinel was an advocate of physiological fictions and metaphysical hypotheses. He was purely descriptive.
False. He avoided the concepts
History: He is coined as the Father of Systematic Psychiatry
Emil Kraeplin (late 19th Century) - student of Wilheim Wundt
What was Kraeplin’s goal with his theory?
To devise accurate an accurate definition of the separate disease processes and disease entities
Kraeplin coined the term demetia praecox. What does it mean?
Shcizophrenia
What are the two major groups of mental disorder defined by Kraeplin?
Manic-depressive psychoses
Dementia preacox
Differences of all Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals (DSM)
DSM I - Largely unrealiable, too theory laden with psychodynamic view
DSM II (1968) - Classifications complatible with ICD, physical and psychological (purely descriptive)
DSM III - Atheoretical, specific criteria, Systemic description, Multiaxial system
DSM III-R Expanded coverage, increases reliability and updated with research
DSM IV
DSM V
What composes the systematic description as described in the DSM III
Essential features Associated features Prevalence Rates Sex ratio Family pattern Differential diagnoses
What are the different axial systems in DSM III-R
Axis I Clinical Syndrome
Axis II Dev’t disorders and personality disorders
Axis III Physical disorders and conditions
Axis IV Severity of psychosocial stressors
Axis V Global assessment of functions
Goal of DSM III-R
To avoid mixed and atypical diagnoses, while having good coverage and reliability
T or F: Highest level of functioning can be seen during the past year
True
