Lesson 3 - Depression, Pyschopathy, Schizophrenia

Question 1

What are some criticisms to categorizing illnesses?

Answer 1

1. ) It is artificial
2. ) Induce an illness by labeling it
3. ) Labels will always be inadequate
4. ) Labels are too mechanistic
5. ) Medical model is at the base
6. ) You get paid from diagnoses

Question 2

What are some advantages of categorizing illnesses?

Answer 2

1. ) Labels provide standardization
2. ) Forces you to make sense of the data
3. ) Helps with some medical application

Question 3

What is abnormal behavior?

Answer 3

1. ) Any behavior which is exhibiting pain
2. ) Any behavior which is crying out for help
3. ) Borderline personalities

Question 4

What is neurotic personality?

Answer 4

• • a troubled person, who is unaware how to cope with a problem
• • No break from reality

Question 5

What is psychotic personality?

Answer 5

• • break from reality

- - lost reality testing

Question 6

What are the two types of psychotic behavior?

Answer 6

• • Organic (damaged biological - drug overdose, accident)

- - Functional (they don’t get better based on the environment they are in)

Question 7

What is a mood disorder?

Answer 7

• • any place where there is extreme variation in mood

- - depression, mania

Question 8

what is a thought disorder?

Answer 8

• • one who is split from their reality
• • hallucinations, allusions, disillusions
• • schizophrenia

Question 9

What are the 4 A’s of Schizophrenia?

Answer 9

1. ) Association - inability to think logically/rationally
2. ) Ambivalence - not concerned with the severity
3. ) Affect - mood is flat or inappropriate to setting
4. ) Autism - responding to inner reality, not outer reality

Question 10

What are the different theories of Schizophrenia and the family?

Answer 10

1. ) Sheff: the result of being labeled
2. ) Schizophrenia mother theory: connected to an overly solicitous mother who rejects the child (the child becomes confused)
3. ) Fleck and Lidz Schism Theory: Schizophrenia develops when their is a hostile environment in the family.
4. ) R.D. Lang’s Theory: the parents put the child in a unbearable situation (has to be given a message with 2 different answers)

Question 11

Summarize the research on Schizophrenia and families?

Answer 11

• • There is no way to control conditions in the family
• • Family studies rely on retrospective studies (always after the fact)
• • most of them are only observations and recordings
• • It’s impossible to tell whether schizophrenia caused family problems or family problems caused schizophrenia
• • can’t rule out either genetics or environment because of the twin studies