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Philippe Pinel
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insisted that madness wasn't demon possession but a sickness of the mind caused by severe stresses and inhumane conditions
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Medical Model
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The concept that diseases in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.
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Biophychosocial Approach
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Studies how biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors interact to produce specific psychological disorders.
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unDSM
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A diagnostic manuel of human strengths: wisdom, knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence.
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Anxiety Disorders
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Psychological disordes characterized by distressing, persistence anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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A person in unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy.
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Panic Disorder
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A person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread.
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Phobias
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A person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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A person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions.
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Anterior Cingulate Cortex
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The area of the brain that monitors our actions and checks for errors. Its especially active in those with OCD.
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Somatoform Disorder
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Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause.
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Conversion Disorder
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A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.
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Hypochondriasis
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A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.
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Dissociative Disorder
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Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts and feelings.
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Mood Changes
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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
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Bipolar Disorder
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A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
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Norepinephrine
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Scarce during depression and overabundant during mania.
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Serotonin
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Scarce during depression.
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Schizophrenia
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a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinning, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
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Psychotic Disorders
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A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.
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delusions
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false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may company psychotic disorders.
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
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Preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity.
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
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Disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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Immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement) extreme negativism, and/or parrotlike repeating of another's speech or movements.
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
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Many and varied symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Personality Disorders
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Psychological disorders characterized by infallible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
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