DREAM HOUSE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER

Dream House and Psychological Disorder

Dream House and Psychological Disorder

Introduction

The study is related to Dream House which particularly focuses on the psychological disorder of the character in the movie as it is observed that the movie represents the psychological disorder. This psychological disorder is based on the DSM-IV which is a manual particularly useful in the field of psychology, whether clinical or experimental. It represents a consensus description of mental disorders result from a combination of a considerable number of empirical data. Its main purpose is to propose a classification, a description, as a tool to help diagnose the most common mental disorders.

Discussion

In context of the movie Dream House, DSM-IV, to enable a holistic and integrative patient, is a systematic approach makes the axial bearing psychiatric patients. DSM-IV holds it for five areas of analysis include:Psychiatric disorders characterized, developmental disorders and learning, addiction and intoxication;Personality disorders and mental retardation; Pathologies other than psychiatric or neuropsychiatric. There is also talk of general medical conditions; Psychosocial and environmental problems that alter the functioning; Scale of overall functioning. DSM-IV is a classification, not exhaustive, but is useful for many reasons:

The descriptions of the DSM-IV are the result of the current consensus, which are dealing with knowledge on psychology, evolving even in turmoil. It is a guide in the diagnostic process: the vast majority of clinically observable psychological syndromes are described. For each mental disorder, specific diagnostic criteria, necessary, regular partners, or whose presence is possible, are offered. This shared set increases the agreement between clinicians and investigators from different countries or different orientations. A consensus nomenclature facilitates understanding and exchange of information: one is cognitive psychologist, neuropsychologist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, systemic, etc. Build on the same criteria and similar definitions is obviously an asset to the sharing of information and understanding, exchange and joint work, and, more importantly, for the treatment of disorders (Bune, 2006).

In relation to the Dream House, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, American Psychiatric Association contains a classification of mental disorders and provides clear descriptions of diagnostic categories, so that clinicians and researchers from health sciences to diagnose, study and exchange information and discuss various mental disorders . The current edition is the fourth, DSM-IV, as revised, DSM-IV-TR. It has published a research agenda for the publication of DSM-V, which, like the DSM-IV, causing controversy among professionals as to its diagnostic use. The WHO recommends the use of the SI called ICD-10, an acronym for the International Classification of Diseases, tenth edition, whose use is widespread throughout the world (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

In particular relation to the movie Dream House, the DSM was derived from empirical data and a descriptive methodology, aiming to improve communication between clinicians of different orientations, and clinical researchers in general different. Therefore, does not pretend to explain the various pathologies, or to suggest lines of pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment, or to be assigned to a specific current theory or in the psychology or ...