ABMORMAL BEHAVIOR AND HISTORICAL CONTENT

Psychological Disorder

a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.

Psychopathology

scientific study of psychological disorders.

Clinical Description

represents the unique combination of behavior, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder

Presents

indicates why a person came to the clinic

Prevalence

how many people in the population as a whole have the disorder.

Incidence

how many new cases occur during a given period.

Course

an individual patternc

Chronic Course

tend to last a long time or lifetime.

Episodic Course

likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time.

Time-limited Course

the disorder will improve without treatment overt short period with little or no risk or recurrence.

Acute Onset

meaning, it begin suddenly, time limited; the problem will be over soon enough like cold.

Insidious Onset

it develops gradually over an extended period of time.

Prognosis

the anticipated course of a disorder

Etiology

the study of origins, has to do with why disorder begins or what causes it.

Supernatural Tradition

It is believe that deviant behavior has been considered a reflection of the battle between good and devil. as well as demons and witches

Stress and Insanity

it is natural phenomenon, caused by mental or emotional stress, and that is curable.

Mass Hysteria

whole groups of people were stimultaneously compelled to run out in the streets, dance, shout, rave, and jump around in patterns. As if they were particularly wild party late night (still called rave today, but with music). Simple demonstrate the phenomenon of emotion contagion.

Paracelus

a swiss physician who rejected the notion of possession by the devil instead suggestedd that movement of the moon and stars had effects on people’s psychological functioning.

Lunatic

derived from the word luna meaning moon

Hippocrates

father of western medicine

Hippocratic Corpus

states that psychological disorder can be treated like any other disease..

Humoral Theory of Disorder

states that disease resulted from too much or too little of one of the bodily fluids or humors.

blood

humor that come from the heart

black bile

humor that come from the spleen

yellow bile

humor that come from the liver

Phlegm

humor that came from the brain

saguine

means “red, like blood”

melancholic

means depressive, depression was thought caused by the black bile

phlegmatic

indicates apathy and sluggishness but can also mean being calm under stress

Choleric

from yellow bile, hot tempred.

John P. Grey

he stated that the cause of sanity is always physcal, therefore mentally ill patient should be treated physically ill.

Insulin shock therapy

stimulate appetite in psychotic patients

Electroconclusive Therapy

a shock that causes “ strangely elated” that become treatment for depression.

Neuroleptics

major tranquilizers; control agitation and aggressiveness

Benzodiazepines

minor tranquilizers; reduces anxiety.

Moral Therapy

states that treating institutionalized patients should be normal as possible and provide appropriate social and interpersonal contact.