Final Exam Flashcards
thomas szasz
abnorman doesn’t edqual mental ilness
thomas joiner
suicide
psychosis
persons thoughts and perceptions are fundamentaly removed from reality
psychopaths
impaired by the lack of empathy and remores
prior medical models
religion superstition assumption of contagion mental institutions blame the victim for the weakness
Trephining
A circular section of the sull is drilled leaving a gaping whole in your skull. to people who were behaving abnormally, or had a mental ilness.
“the state hospital”
Edward keinholtz mental institution art peice with the fish tank head.
Diagnosti & criteria
Abnormal Vs. Mental illness
Interviews / observations / and testing MMPI
_must have all 3 _
Deviant : outside the norm
Dysfuntional : messes with the ability to be normal
Demand or Dangeder : demanded by the court or others around you; you are in danger to yourself and/or others
DSM-IV AXIS
I: clinical syndromes not a cure II: Personality disorders (ID) - born with it III: medical conditions IV: phsychological problems V: global assesment of fuctioning
anxiety related disorders
generalized phobic social panic & agraphobia OCD` PTSD
Etiology of anxiety related disorders
Correclations not causes
genetics: if you have the genes its more likely
Neurochemicals: decrease in GABA and seratonin
Classical&opperant conditioning: phobias formed through conditionind of the cognitive etiiology
Cognitive: tendency to interpret natural stimuli to be - Threatening
Personality: high levels of Neuroticism
Stress: onset and related to eposides of anxiety attacksz
acrophobia
irrational fear of hights; desensitization works well
Aerophobia or airophobia
irrational fear of air, maybe even fresh air.
somatic system - based disorders
Physical ailments with no organic basis (FICS)
FAKE/ Fictitious - makes crap up
IA. Illness anxiety -obsessively thinks think you will get sick
Convert -real symptoms no basis ( blindness)
Starter.Symptom obsession -multiple doctors and multiple symptoms
somo-sytem etiology
Personality : Drama queens/kings of exhaduration
Cognitive : Attention is all on them Spot light
sick role
disassociative disorders
FAID
fugue - False sense of identity
amnesia - memory loss before or after tramatic event
identity - multiple personalities