Mental disorders

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Mental disorders

• What is abnormal?
• Classification and diagnosis
• Survey of disorders

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What is abnormal?

• Popular definitions Crazy, insane, strange
• Statistical definitions Deviation from what is
  typical or common
• Norm-based definitions Violating cultural
  expectations or rules causing discomfort
• Personalized definitions Subjective distress
• Maladaptive definitions Disability or dysfunction

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Key aspects to abnormality

• Unexpectedness or irrationality of behavior
• Meeting characteristics on the changeable list of
  disorders accepted within a culture.

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Classification and diagnosis

• ICD and DSM
• DSM-IV
• Multi-axial diagnosis
• Biopsychosocial approach
• Problems with diagnosis
• Category vs. continuum
• Labelling effect

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Survey of mental disorders

• Axis II Personality disorders and mental
  retardation
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Axis I

• Anxiety Disorders
• Phobias Specific and Social
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Dissociative Disorders
• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative Fugue
• Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Mood Disorders

• Major Depression
• Seasonal Pattern
• Melancholic type
• Bipolar Disorder
• Cyclothymia

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Schizophrenia

• Positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms
• Hallucinations and delusions
• Disorganization
• Deterioration of ability
• Dopamine hypothesis
• Brain damage

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Types of schizophrenia

• Paranoid
• Catatonic
• Disorganized
• Atypical
• Residual

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EEG in Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Antisocial Personality Disorder is also known as
  psychopathy or sociopathy.
• If people with Antisocial Personality Disorder
  have abnormal brain functions, are they
  responsible for crimes they may commit?

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Dissociative Identity Disorder
Look for the diagnostic features of DID in this
video clip.