Chapter 14
Chapter Outline
Normality—What’s Normal?
Core Features of Disordered Behavior
Insanity
Classifying Mental Disorders—Problems by the Book
An Overview of Psychological Disorders
General Risk Factors
Ethnic Group Membership
An Important Note—You’re Okay, Really!
Psychotic Disorders—The Dark Side of the Moon
The Nature of Psychosis
Organic Psychosis
Delusional Disorders—An Enemy Behind Every Tree
Paranoid Psychosis
Schizophrenia—Shattered Reality
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Catatonic Schizophrenia
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
The Causes of Schizophrenia
Environment
Heredity
Brain Chemistry
Implications
Mood Disorders—Peaks and Valleys
Major Mood Disorders
What Causes Mood Disorders?
Gender and Depression
Postpartum Depression
Biology and Depression
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Anxiety-Based Disorders—When Anxiety Rules
Adjustment Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder (Without Agoraphobia)
Panic Disorder (With Agoraphobia)
Agoraphobia
Specific Phobia
Social Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Stress Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Somatoform Disorders
Anxiety and Disorder—Four Pathways to Trouble
Psychodynamic Approach
Humanistic-Existential Approaches
Behavioral Approach
Cognitive Approach
Implications
Personality Disorders—Blueprints for Maladjustment
Maladaptive Personality Patterns
Antisocial Personality
Causes
Disorders in Perspective—Psychiatric Labeling
Social Stigma
A Look Ahead
Psychology in Action: Suicide—Lives on the Brink
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Marital Status
Immediate Causes of Suicide
Preventing Suicide
How to Help
Crisis Intervention