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1 Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 19 Yale University The final topic of the course is clinical psychology, also known as abnormal psychology or psychopathology, and this, for many of us, is what psychology is really about. It's about mental illness. It's about clinical psychologists. And we started talking about this when Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema gave her guest lecture last week and I want to continue through this today. It is a topic of tremendous scientific importance but also a topic of great personal importance for many of us. Many of the people in this room have been mentally ill, strictly speaking, at some point in their lives. Some of you are under some sort of therapy or treatment or medical intervention right now. Some of you are on Prozac or Zoloft or Ambien or Wellbutrin or any of those other psychologists, social workers, and other people.

and the number is very high with college graduates, highly educated people 鈥 getting some sort of illness, be it Alzheimer's or or some sort of anxiety to themselves and sometimes It addiction and cocaine addiction and other reported in The New Yorker a few months ago, who has lots of money and a loving family and has his kidney removed to help a stranger? And he says, "I have two kidneys. It's minor pain, a minor operation. I could save someone's life." And his wife says, "You're mentally ill. That's just crazy to do that." Where do we draw the line? And so, there are these great philosophical and moral questions over the boundaries and how to think about mental illness.

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2 Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 19 Yale University So, how should we think about mental illness? Well, there are some answers we could quickly dispense with. It used to be thought that severe mental illness was a result of demonic possession. If you read the Gospels, Jesus Christ wandered around a lot, met crazy people and exorcised the demons from their bodies. It was a common way of thinking about craziness. We now believe that this is not true. What about--yeah, it's not true. What about social deviants? Some people including the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz claim that when we label somebody as mentally ill this is not a medical decision. It's rather a social decision designed to ostracize people who deviate from society's norms, to ostracize them and rid them of moral agency. It's such we don't even have to accord to them the respect that we accord to criminals.

much as reflecting a sort of unbiased medical analysis but rather that people have against gay people. And these are political and social and are not objective medical Time magazine. Now, put aside whether--the extent to which these things are point that we often use medical labels, particularly labels like "psychopath," to ostracize and pick out people we disagree with.

鈥 with very some exceptions revolving around mania as Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema discussed 鈥 illnesses in the context of other things. So, for instance, we talked about amnesia in the context of memory and how it works. We talked about autism in the context of social reasoning. There are many more and I'm not going to read through them. These are the major categories just for people's interest from The Diagnostic and Standard Manual. You don't have to--you're not responsible for all of these. And this is an illustration, which people might find interesting, of sex differences in these--in the major disorders. And the patterns, as you could see, are kind of neat. Women are more prone to have anxiety disorders and mood

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3 Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 19 Yale University disorders. Men are much more likely to suffer from substance disorders, particularly alcoholism. Schizophrenia is sort of evenly matched but antisocial personality disorders, sometimes known as sociopathy or psychopathy, is predominantly male. And we'll turn to that a bit later.

Here are the major ones which I want to review today. I'm not going to talk about mood disorders at all because this was the topic of the superb lecture we heard last week but I want to quickly review schizophrenia, the class of disorders known as anxiety disorders, the class of disorders known as anxiety disorders and the mood disorders are very common.

illness it is. Schizophrenics have been described as the lepers of by people who reality. It's important to stress the sort of sometimes people confuse It's a sort of dissociative disorder. Split schizophrenia do not have multiple genders but it strikes men earlier these ages and as you could see college or university.

There are five symptoms 鈥 don't have, lacks. So, just to walk through them, a hallucination is an experience, a that isn't real. So, the most typical hallucinations are auditory. hallucinations or hallucinations of smell and taste but a experience that's wrong, that just didn't really happen. A delusion is a belief that isn't right. It's a belief that you shouldn't be having. Now, again, the question of what counts as a delusion and what counts as accuracy can be a controversial one. Richard Dawkins titled his recent bookThe God Delusion, describing this mass delusion that many people have that they believe there's a supernatural being who created the universe and who is watching them. Some people find that offensive, to call it a delusion and people will have different views.

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4 Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 19 Yale University The delusions schizophrenics have tend to be pretty clearly weird and wrong. They often tend to believe they are famous people. Many schizophrenics have a religious bent and believe that they are Jesus Christ. In …… 此处隐藏：19085字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……