Defining Psychological Disorders

educated people, uneducated people

uneducated people, educated people

females, males

males, females

infancy

childhood

early adulthood

old age

lock people up in asylums

give people experimental drugs

give people psychoanalysis

make people do community service

diagnostic and scientific manual of mental disorders

diagnostic and statistical manual of major disorders

diagnostic and scientific manual of major disorders

diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

borderline personality disorder

conversion disorder

hypochondria

mitochondria

depression

obesity

drug abuse

anxiety

a type of schizophrenia

an eating disorder

a paraphilia

a somatoform disorder

several members of a family have the same mental health issue

an individual spends too much time thinking about death

a person suffers from more than one disorder at the same time

nothing can be done to prevent a disorder from occurring

hasn’t changed since the 1950s

is not actually used by therapists, insurers etc

only includes a handful of disorders

is primarily focused on Western illness

uneducated people, educated people

children, adolescents

extraverts, introverts

women, men