General Psychology
Psychological Disorders

• Introduction

  • Defined: actions, thoughts or feelings that are deviant and maladaptive

  • Prevalence: about 20% of the population

  • Diagnosis: DSM IV

  • Historical explanations: supernatural, biological, psychological.

  • Stress: A common precipitator.

• Anxiety Disorders

  • Defined: Excessive levels of negative emotions such as nervousness, tension, worry and fright.

  • Phobias: Intense irrational fear

    • Agoraphobia

    • Social Phobia

    • Specific Phobia

  • Anxiety States:

    • Panic

    • Generalized Anxiety

    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Affective (Mood) Disorder

  • Defined: extreme and maladaptive mood

  • Major Depression

  • Bipolar Disorder (manic-depression)

• Dissociative Disorder

  • Defined: splitting of consciousness

  • Amnesia

  • Fugue

  • Multiple Personality

  • Depersonalization

• Somatoform Disorder

  • Defined: psychological distress expressed in physical symptoms

  • Hypochondria

  • Somatization

• Schizophrenic Disorders

  • Defined: Presents various psychotic features, decreased functioning, onset before 45, duration of 6 months

  • Content of thought. Delusions

  • Form of thought: Loose and disorganized

  • Perceptions: Auditory hallucinations

• Psychosexual Disorders

  • Defined: Primary source of sexual interest and gratification is deviant and maladaptive

  • Gender Identity Disorder

  • Paraphilias

    • Transvesticism

    • Zoophilia

    • Pedophilia

    • Exhibitionism

    • Voyeurism

    • Sadism/masochism

• Personality Disorders

  • Defined: Inflexible, maladaptive, long-standing personality traits

  • Paranoid:

  • Schizoid

  • Schizotypal

  • Histrionic

  • Narcissistic

  • Anti-social

  • Borderline

  • Avoidant

  • Compulsive