abnormal psyc terms

CHAPTER 1

· Personal and cultural points of view come into conflict to cause abnormal behavior.
· Myth of mental illness: notion that rather than reflecting mental illness, abnormal behavior is simply different or wrong or a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation.
· Theorists believe that abnormal behavior is due to something wrong with society.
· It was originally believed that abnormal behavior was caused by evil or the devil.
· Look at diagram attached. (1.1)
· Trephination: a procedure in which holes are dilled in the skull; thought to be used by Stone Age people to release the evil spirits that cause abnormal behavior
· Exorcism: a treatment for mental illness that involves driving out the devil or evil spirits thought to cause disorder.
· Hippocrates: an early Greek physician who proposed that abnormal behaviors resulted from the imbalance of humors (fluids) in the body.
· Humors: fluids in the body, whose imbalan...