Abnormal Psychology Lectures

Course policies and procedures.

Explanations for abnormal behavior: Supernatural, Somatogenic, Psychogenic. Historical conceptions for abnormality before the Renaissance period.

Covers historical understanding of abnormal behavior and mental illness, from 1100 to present. Also contemporary perspectives on understanding the causes of mental illness.

Assessment: interviews, self-report, neurological. Diagnosis: DSM and the medical model for mental illness; ICD.

Mood Disorders introduction; symptoms; etiology of depression and bipolar disorder.

Covers treatment of mood disorders

Covers anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Covers PTSD, dissociative, and somatoform disorders.

Covers Part 3 of An Unquiet Mind. Also schizophrenia - history, symptoms, & demographics.

Discussion of Part 4 of An Unquiet Mind.