Personality Disorders: Psychodiagnosis
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- Psychodiagnosis
- Abnormal behaviour
- Rosenhan & Seligman (1989)
- Distress and suffering
- Fail to perform day to day activities (maladaptiveness)
- Unconventionality e.g. dress
- Unpredictability, lack of self control
- Irrationality
- Disturbing others (observer discomfort)
- Violation of moral standards
- Rosenhan & Seligman (1989)
- Psychodiagnosis
- Classification
- DSM 5 of the APA
- 300 disorders classified
- 5 axis
- 1 - clinical syndromes
- 2 - personality disorders
- 3 - medical conditions
- 4 - psychosocial and environmental problems
- 5 - level of psychosocial,social and occupational functioning
- ICD 10 of the WHO
- DSM 5 of the APA
- Classification
- Problems
- Individual differences
- Personal judgements reflect social, cultural and political values
- Could change over time
- Need to distinguish between universal and specific disorders
- Personal judgements reflect social, cultural and political values
- Reliability and validity
- Issues with reliability e.g. poor test retest
- Issues with validity, whether the disorder exists e.g. effect of a stressor rather than a PD
- Labelling and self-fulfilling prophecy
- Rosenhan (1973)
- No clear symptoms for diagnosis of SZ
- Everyday behaviours (e.g. writing) seen as pathological
- Psychiatric labels stick
- Failure to judge sanity and insanity
- Laing
- Insanity is a rational response to an insane world
- His treatment centre let people come and go as they pleased and didn't administer psychiatric drugs
- Madness is a spiritual journey
- Rosenhan (1973)
- Individual differences
- Abnormal behaviour
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