Status Updates From Abnormal Psychology: An Int...

Hippocratic-Galenic approach - humoral theory of disorders (chemical imbalance)
blood - heart (insomnia, delirium)
black bile - spleen (melancholia/depression)
phlegm - brain (apathy, sluggishness)
cholera/yellow bile - liver (hot tempered)
treatment - bloodletting, leeches, vomiting
Asia - cold dark wind (yin) warm wind (yang)
hysteria - somatic symptom disorders
syphilis - Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of disease

chronic course - long time
episodic course - recover within few months then suffer recurrence later
time-limited course - improve w/o treatment in short time
acute onset- begin suddenly
insidious onset- gradually
prognosis - anticipated course of disorder
mass hysteria - emotion contagion - mob psychology
Hippocrates - father of modern Western medicine - psych disorders can be treated like any other disease

fundamentally the focus of studying psychological disorders are the clinical description, causation (etiology), and treatment and outcome
presenting problem (reason why person came to clinic) is the first step to clinical description. also it is relevant to know the prevalence (# of ppl in a population w the disorder, incidence (# of cases in a period), sex ratio, typical age of onset

on atypicality - the more substantial the deviation, the more abnormal it is, yet not necessarily disordered, eccentric would be more fitting
an abnormal behavior is hard to define from a culturally diverse viewpoint, thus dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context &
associated with present distress & impairment in functioning is the widely accepted definition, and 'prototypes' is the best we can use

everyone experiences a bit of dysfunction, but to ultimately qualify to a psychological disorder, an individual has to be experiencing three things: psychological disfunction (a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning), distress or impairment (when an individual is extremely upset and cannot function properly), and atypical response (culturally unexpected)

bro I'm almost done with this b-i-c-t-h. can't believe i actually enjoyed the ride. i want to be a psychiatrist 10x more now. uni made me read it

I miss novels fr

Have to read this whole thing for a course (yes I'm actually a psychology major on my premed)... Fellas, am I cooked?