A b n o r m a l P s y c h o l o g y A.K.A. Psychological Disorders
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Abnormal PsychologyA.K.A. Psychological Disorders
A “harmful dysfunction” in which behavior is judged to be atypical,
disturbing, maladaptive and unjustifiable.
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Early Theories
• Abnormal behavior was evil spirits trying to get out.
• Trephining was often used.
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DSM IV• Diagnostic
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: the big book of disorders.
• DSM will classify disorders and describe the symptoms.
• DSM will NOT explain the causes or possible cures.
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Two Major Classifications in the DSM
Neurotic Disorders• Distressing but one
can still function in society and act rationally.
Psychotic Disorders• Person loses contact
with reality, experiences distorted perceptions.
John Wayne Gacy
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Generalized Anxiety DisorderGAD
• An anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense, apprehensive and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
• The patient is constantly tense and worried, feels inadequate, is oversensitive, can’t concentrate and suffers from insomnia.
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Panic Disorder
• An anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking and other frightening sensations.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Persistent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) cause someone to feel the need (compulsion) to engage in a particular action.
• Obsession about dirt and germs may lead to compulsive hand washing.
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Post-traumatic Stress Disordera.k.a. PTSD
• Flashbacks or nightmares following a person’s involvement in or observation of an extremely stressful event.
• Memories of the even cause anxiety.
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Somatoform Disorders
• Occur when a person manifests a psychological problem through a physiological symptom.
• Two types……
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
• A person has several rather than one integrated personality.
• People with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma.
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Major Depression
• A.K.A. unipolar depression
• Unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause.
• Depression is the common cold of psychological disorders.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Experience depression during the winter months.
• Based not on temperature, but on amount of sunlight.
• Treated with light therapy.
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Bipolar Disorder
• Formally manic depression.
• Involves periods of depression and manic episodes.
• Manic episodes involve feelings of high energy (but they tend to differ a lot…some get confident and some get irritable).
• Engage in risky behavior during the manic episode.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Lack of empathy.• Little regard for
other’s feelings.• View the world as
hostile and look out for themselves.
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Schizophrenic Disorders
• About 1 in every 100 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
1.Disorganized thinking.
2.Disturbed Perceptions3.Inappropriate
Emotions and Actions
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Disorganized Thinking
• The thinking of a person with Schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs.
• Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention.- they cannot filter out information.
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Delusions (false beliefs)
• Delusions of Persecution
• Delusions of Grandeur
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Disturbed Perceptions
• hallucinations- sensory experiences without sensory stimulation.
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Inappropriate Emotions and Actions
• Laugh at inappropriate times.
• Flat Effect • Senseless,
compulsive acts.• Catatonia-
motionless Waxy Flexibility
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Positive v. Negative Symptoms
Positive Symptoms•Presence of inappropriate symptoms
Negative Symptoms•Absence of appropriate ones.
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Types of Schizophrenia
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
• disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion.
• Clang associations • "Imagine the worst
Systematic, sympatheticQuite pathetic, apologetic, paramedicYour heart is prosthetic"
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
• preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations.
• Somebody is out to get me!!!!
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
• Flat effect• Waxy Flexibility• parrot like
repeating of another’s speech and movements
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
• Many and varied Symptoms.