Vocab words for the Meaning of Madness
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- Sign
- what the psychologist observes
- Symptom
- what the patient tells you
- Bracket Creep
- definition of a disorder (PTSD) expanding
- Dynamic Psychiatry
- ideas come out of the unconscious; inspired by Freud but does not follow his doctrine word for word
- Lifetime Prevalence
- Has the person ever had this disorder?
- Current Prevalence
- has the person met criteria for the disorder within the past month (or 6 months)?
- Annual Prevalence
- has the person met criteria for the disorder within the past year?
- Incidence
- : the proportion of the population that developed a certain disorder within a specific time period
- Annual Incidence rate
- the proportion of ppl who fell ill with a certain disorder within the past year
- Diathesis stress
- the idea the one is born with a vulnerability to a disorder and it can be triggered by an environmental factor
- Exaptation
- something that evolved not because of its original purpose but because of another use
- Essentialism
- : a belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are
- Taxon
- different in kind not degree (gender)
- Primary Delusional Idea
- does not develop from previous psychopathology but from an external stimulus (i.e. mail not coming)
- Secondary Delusional Idea
- develops form previous psychopathology (e.g. auditory hallucination)
- Theory of Mind
- Inability to associate mental characteristics in other people
- Unipolar depression
- fluctuates from normal to depressed
- Bipolar depression
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fluctuates from depression to mania
Bipolar I: full blown depression and mania
Bipolar II: full blown depression and hypo-mania - Mixed mania
- depressive and manic symptoms occur at the same time
- Latent Inhibition
- the brains ability to block out unnecessary information
- Sentimentalism
- right and wrong determined by emotions
- Distill environment
- affects all of society (socioeconomic status, geography)
- Proximal environment
- : affects individual (social and physical exposure)
- Social Causation
- stressors in socioeconomic status lead to disorder
- Social Selection
- survival of the fittest (healthy have high status and mentally ill have low status)
- Iatrogenic
- a disorder that is caused by a health professional
- Phenomenology
- how a person experiences psychopathology
- Kindling Effect
- : the more exposed one is to something, the worse is will become (e.g. it one continues to have seizures, they will get progressively worse)
- Repression
- Subconscious act of forgetting
- Suppression
- conscious act of forgetting
- Sex bias
- a systematic deviation from an expected value
- MPI
- concrrent symptoms and beliefs held by many people
- MPD and DID
- multiple personalities (created by hypnosis) vs. fragmented personalities
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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-frantic they will be abandoned
-who am I?
-impulsivity
-reckless
-suicidal behavior
-affect instability - Axis I
- This is what we typically think of as the diagnosis (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, social phobia)
- Axis II
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Personality disorders are clinical syndromes which have a more long lasting symptoms and encompass the individual's way of interacting with the world. They include Paranoid, Antisocial, and Borderline Personality Disorders. - Anti-social Disorder (ASPD)
- pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of others since at least age 15
- Psychopathy
- people who lack a conscience (def by Hervey Cleckley)
- hypomania
- high self esteem, less need for sleep, talkative, flight of ideas, distractable, involvement in pleasurable activity but no psychotic features
- schizotypal
- watered down version of schizophrnia
- Roschian Analysis
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-no definite features
-vageu borderlive between disorder and non-disorder