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• how do we call the field concerned with the nature, development, and treatment of mental disorders?

  psychopathology

• how do we call the destructive beliefs and attitudes held by society that are ascribed to groups considered different in some manner?

  stigma

• what are the four characteristics of a stigma?

  • a distinguishing label is applied
  • the label refers to undesirable attitudes
  • people with the label are seen as different
  • people with the label are discriminated against

• what are the characteristics of a mental disorder?

  • occurs within the individual
  • involves clinically significant difficulties in thinking, feeling, or behaving
  • it involves dysfunction in processes that support mental functioning
  • it is not a specific reaction to an event
  • it is not primarily the result of social deviance or conflict with society

• of which components does a mental disorder consist?

  • personal distress
  • disability
  • dysfunction
  • violation of social norms

• how do we call impairment in some important area of life?

  disability

• how do we call an internal organism is unable to perform its natural ability.

  dysfunction

• how do we call the doctrine that an evil being or spirit can dwell within a person and control his or her mind and body?

  demonology

• how do we call the ritualistic casting out of evil spirits?

  exorcism

• hypocrates was the first to regard the brain as the organ of the mind, and stated that illness of any kind would have a natural cause rather than a religious one. In which three categories did he classify mental disorders?

  • mania
  • melancholia
  • phrenitis, or brain fever