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psychological abnormality

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  • behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of them in their context
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What term is often used instead of psychological abnormalities

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psychopathology (study of those with psychological abnormaities)

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wakefield concluded that harmful dysfunction is the key notion. What is dysfunction referring to

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  • ‘failure of internal mechanisms to perform naturally selected functions
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according to wakefield what two criteria does one need to fit in order to conclude that a behaviour is disordered

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  • scientific judgement that there is a failure of designed function
  • value judgement that said failure harms the individual
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t or f: wakefield argues that even if an individual may or may not be able to perform natural functions, their behaviour can still be called abnormal

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false, unless the individual is unable to perform a natural function, it doesnt make sense to call a behaviour abnormal

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how can abnormal and evolutionary psychology be linked?

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  • evolutionary: what doesnt help organisms reproduce can be considered dysfunctional
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What relationship did Thomas Szaz believe mirrors that of psychiatrist/patient

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church/witch

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What are the four general attempts at recognizing behaviour as abnormal

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  • Diagnosis by professional
  • Personal distress
  • Statistical concept
  • Violation of norms
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In 1928, what act was passed deeming that those who were ‘mentally ill’ were to be sterilized to prevent deterioration of the general public’s intellect.

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sexual sterilization act

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What is the procedure called in old times when people would drill holes in the skull while people were alive and what are the explanations

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  • trephination
  • hole to let out evil spirits
  • remove bone splinters or blood clots from warfare
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hippocrates

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  • father of modern medicine
  • denied belief that psychological problems were caused by
    intervention of gods/demons
  • ‘wandering uterus’>hysteria
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disturbances in body fluid, or ________, were thought to have been the cause of mental illness

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humours

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Where were asylums established?

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Arab cities

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According to luther, what are the two different types of possession and what differentiates them

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Corporally (bodily): one becomes mad
Spiritually: one is a witch

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Paracelsus

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  • rejected the four humours theory and instead claimed mental illness resulted from disturbances of the spiritus vitae (breath of life)
  • treated people with early version of hynosis
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St Vitus’ dance

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  • aka tarantella
  • people leaping/dancing/jumping around uncontrollably, sometimes convulsing
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Johannes Wayner

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  • rejected exorcism
  • advocated for natural/physical treatments
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Where was the first mental institution in north america

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  • mexico, built by spaniards
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where does the term lunatic stem from

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  • latin for moon, luna
  • Paracelsus thought the moon to play a role in emotional and mental processing
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bedlam

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  • rowdy, chaotic behaviour
  • local corruption of Bethlehem
  • come from disruption from residents of mental institutions being distracted by tourists
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Pinel

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  • emphasized role of social and psychological factors that contribute to development of mental illness
  • saw asylums as therapeutic
  • treatment of pateints should be respectful
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mental hygiene movement

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  • desire to protect people and provide humane treatment for those with mental illness
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moral therapy

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  • a therapeutic approach that emphasized character and spiritual development, and called for kindness on the part of all who came in contact with the patient
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biological approaches to causes of mental illness

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  • hereditary
  • infections
  • disordered brain chemistry
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degeneration theory

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  • deviations from normal functioning are transmitted by hereditary processes and they progressively degrease over generations
  • introduced by Benedict morel
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What did Lombroso determine about criminality

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  • it is hereditary
  • can be seen through the shape of a person’s skull
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What did Emily Kraepelin do

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  • published ‘Clinical Psychiatry’ that attempted to classify mental illness
  • coined groups of syndromes often occurring together as syndromes
  • found that they also differed in age of onset and lifespan
  • suggested that different disorders had different causes, thought all to be biological
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GPI

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  • General paresis of the insane
  • aka neurosyphilis
  • untreated syphilis leads to this
  • mania, grandiosa, and euphoria
    -later: dementia/paralysis
  • cured through injection of either tuberculin or typhus
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somatogenesis

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  • psychopathology is caused by biological factors
  • soma=body
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shock therapy

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  • cold water submersions
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what illness were insulin induced comas used to (successfully) treat

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schizophrenia

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what did Meduna suggest would alleviate schizophrenia symptoms

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  • inducing convulsions/seizures by administration of Metrazol
  • half recovered
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ECT

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  • electroconvulsive therapy
  • first done by Ugo Cerletti, after animal studies to determine lethal shock levels, 80-100 volts
  • used to cause broken limbs/cracked vertebrae
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curare

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  • poison from south american vine that when applied in small doses could relax the limbs of patients
  • later replaced with succunylcholine
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agonist vs antagonist

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  • agonist: facilitates production of acetylcholine
  • antagonist: inhibits production
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What was one of the first experiments that used drugs to combat anxiety

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  • drugs given to soldiers to calm them before surgery
  • drug: chlorpromazine
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psychological approaches of understanding mental illness

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  • hypnotism
  • behaviourism
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Anton Mesmer

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  • hysteria (aka conversion disorder)
  • thought it was due to disturbed distribution of magnetic fluid
  • treatment: touched by mesmer with rods that transmitted magnetic force that rearranges fluids and cures disorder
  • paved way for hypnotism
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cathartic method

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  • using hypnosis to allow patients to relive past events thought to have caused hysteria in order to exhaust the emotional problems that resulted from it
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What did watson claim about problematic functuioning

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that it resulted from unfortunate conditioning experiencesn

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lobotomy

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  • surgical removal or disconnection of the frontal lobe
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EBP

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  • evidence based practice
  • reduces liability and increases accountability
  • using evidence from research and other means to get best possible diagnoses???/÷?

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