Sarah Kwon

PSY230 090314 SN Ch. 1 & 2

<CHAPTER 1. Abnormal Beh in Historical Context>
I. Understanding Psychopathology
Case: Judy: the girl who fainted @ the sight of blood
A. What is a psl DO?
B. The science of psychopathology
C. historical conceptions of abnormal beh
II. The Supernatural Tradition
A. Demons & Witches
B. Stress & Melancholy
a. Charles VI: The Mad King
C. Treatments for Possession
D. Mass Hysteria
a. Discussing Diversity: Biol explanations for psychopathology in women: a brief history of hysteria
E. Modern mass hysteria
F. the moon & the stars
G. Comments
III. The Biol Tradition
A. Hippocrates & Galen
B. The 19thC
C. Devt of Biol treatments
D. Consequences of the biol tradition
IV. The Psl Tradition
A. moral therapy
B. asylum reform & the decline of moral therapy
C. psychoanalytic theory
D. humanistic theory
E. the behl model

Sarah Kwon

V. An Integrative Approach1-I. UNDERSTANDING PATHOLOGY

psl DO= psl dysfxn assoc. w/ distress/impairment in fxning & a response thats not typical/culturally expected; one needs to
meet the three criteria to be defined psl DO:
1) psl dysfxn
2) distress/impairment
3) atypical response
Case: Judy; the girl who fainted @ sight of blood
a) has: blood-injury-injection phobia; lightheaded, queasy, faint, bothered when facing blood/ blood-related
situations/objects
b) phobia= psl DO characterized by marked & persistent fear of an object/situation
A. What is a Psl DO?
abnormal beh= actions that are unexpected & often evaluated negatively b/c they differ from typical/usual beh
o 1) psl dysfxn= breakdown in cog/emo/beh fxning; e.g. being terrified w/ smth you shouldnt be afraid of
b/c of difficulty of drawing line b/w normal & abnormal, often considered to be on continuum/dimension rather than
present/absentso just having a dysfxn isnt enough to meet criteria for a psl DO
o 2) personal distress
criterion satisfied if individual is extremely upset (caveat: cant define psl DO by distress alone!; e.g. some ppl enjoy the
manic state so much they refuse treatment)
impairment isnt entirely satisfactory; e.g. most ppl consider themselves lazy so shy that soc. fxning is impaired
o 3) atypical/not culturally expected