ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Abnormal Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

Introduction

The psychology historians trace the advent of abnormal psychology from the prehistoric period. This practice evolved from the delineation of trephining. Ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, expounded various behavioral problem, and he also formulated the reasons and cure for it. This discipline continued to practice without any scientific application in the Middle Ages too. During the Renaissance period, there were instances of people getting into hospitals for mental illness. People who suffered from these problems were treated inhumanly in the initial period, but this practiced was reformed in the 18th century.

Sometimes the line between normal mood fluctuations and abnormal mood instability or rigidity is vague and hard to pin down, which brings up the case of cyclothymic disorder. Abnormal psychology disorder occupies the murky waters between a full blown bipolar diagnosis and normal mood fluctuations. In particular, entails, less sever, but more constant, mood swings where mood alternates between hypomanic highs and dysthymic lows. Even though there is no clear genetic marker to account for the onset of cyclothymic disorder later in life, has been suggested that cyclothymic mood would be a genetic-familial predisposition for bipolar II disorder. Alternately, people who suffer from mood disorders tend to, hold negative views about themselves, their worlds, and their futures. The big difference between normal mood fluctuations and a diagnosis of is that entails impairment in social or occupational functioning as well as clinically significant distress. In all, has the tendency to worsen over time, with 15%-50% of those diagnosed developing bipolar I or II disorder in the long-run. Dissociative Disorders Dissociative disorders include, A significant disruption in one's conscious experience, memory, sense of identity, or any combination of the three, without a physical cause

Abnormal Psychology

The paper focuses on the relevancy of the case that we have in hand of Jennifer. She is termed to be changing with time due to various reasons. However, she was not under a situation that she was used to be in at just one year back. Since, the recent times there are developments taken over her. She is changing and having various negative impacts over her daily life.

The abnormal psychology studies the abnormal psychological behavior for describing, predicting, explaining, and changing abnormal patterns of cognitive functioning. Abnormal psychology studies the nature of abnormal psychology and its causes (etiology). This knowledge is applied to treat patients with psychological disorders in clinical psychology (Hansell & Damour, 2008).

Psychopathological symptoms are signs that it is important to recognize, understand, decode, and make under the therapeutic use. It is not just about the morbidity in general. The abnormal psychology should lead us closer to the whole person and not just his abnormally experience and demonstrated behaviors. Anyone who has learned to observe and describe carefully and critically, will soon recognize that abnormal psychology is something constantly in motion, and nothing contrast between descriptive abnormal psychology and psychodynamics.

However, abnormal psyxhological problems are not clear if the hormonal and neurotransmission differences between people with and without eating disorders are a cause or ...