Psychiatry

Question 1

Psychiatry

Answer 1

disorders of mood, thought & behaviour with no or only minor physical signs with no visible pathology.

Question 2

Organic vs Functional in Psychiatry

Answer 2

Functional – neurotic disorders, e.g. depression, anxiety, phobias; or psychotic disorders e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder

 Organic- e.g. dementia, psychiatric manifestations of epilepsy or Parkinson’s or stroke, acquired or traumatic brain injury, Huntington’s disease, drug-induced states, etc.

Question 3

Dualism

Answer 3

is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are in some respects non-physical.

Question 4

Approaches to mental illness

Answer 4

Identify chemical imbalances, changes in transmitters and receptors and attempt to correct with drugs (psychopharmacotherapy).

 Revolutionised psychiatry! Patients (mainly psychotic) in straight jackets or locked up - freed.

Mental illness results from upbringing and environmental factors

 Seek to understand, work through, find resolutions/adaptations  psychotherapy/social approaches.

Question 5

Why do we need classification?

Answer 5

 To enable clinicians to communicate with each other about patients

 To understand implications of diagnosis (Sx, prognosis, treatment, etc.)

 To facilitate research
 & to relate research findings to everyday practice