Psychological Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #28

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In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes a look at how the treatment for Psychological Disorders has changed over the last hundred years and who is responsible for getting us on the path to getting us here.

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Table of Contents:

Defining Psychological Disorders 00:10:09
Perspectives on Mental Illness 03:16:10
Diagnosing Disorders with the DSM 07:09:09
DSM is Constantly Evolving 07:42:12


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  1. does anyone else choose to procrastinate doing their school work by watching crash course and convincing themselves that it's okay because its educational

  2. This shows how many People live in dangerous conditions not putting in mental hospitals. We need to rethink the freedom of severe mental illness on our streets

  3. Isn't weird, now we how one kid shows hardly any interest in killing, he only killed once, its not like he killed all the time… why label him as a killer?

    How do we get worse and lack common sense?

  4. BEDLAM / Bethleham Asylum = most fascinating asylum ever IMHO <=fantastic book by Mike Jay about this called the Influencing Machine: James Tilly & The Air Loom:

    THE INFLUENCING MACHINE (UK edition) – Strange Attractor Press
    A VISIONARY MADNESS (US edition) – North Atlantic Press 

    ‘One of the greatest books you’ve never read’ .. William Gibson 

    ‘Beautifully written, with all the drama, the rich characterization, the subtlety, of a fine novel.’ 
    from the foreword by Oliver Sacks

     "Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’ case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a machine: the Air Loom, a terrifying secret weapon whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror and war. But Matthews’ case was even stranger than his doctors realised: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to be involved were entirely real. Caught up in high-level diplomatic intrigues in the chaos of the French revolution, he found himself betrayed by both sides, and in possession of a secret that no-one would believe…" Originally published as The Air Loom Gang (2003), the text has been fully revised and updated, with newly discovered source material and previously unpublished images."

    Aswell as a BEAUTIFUL book that accompanied a musem exhibit on Asylums in general:

    "THIS WAY MADNESS LIES
    the asylum and beyond by MIke Jay"

    Thames and Hudson (UK and US)

    Published to complement the exhibition Bedlam: the asylum and beyond (Wellcome Collection, London, September 2016 – January 2017)

    "This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of madness, or mental illness, through the prism of the institution that defined it: the asylum.

    Combining the perspectives of doctors and patients, artists, social commentators and reformers, it tells the story of its successive incarnations: the 18th century madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society;  the 19th century lunatic asylum, which aimed to restore their reason by humane treatment; and the 20th century mental hospital, which reconceived their conditions as diseases of the brain. At the same time it traces the alternatives to the asylum that each era imagined, and often created.

    The asylums were closed a generation ago, in the belief that new medical treatments were making them redundant. Today’s marketplace teems with medications and alternative therapies – as the era before the asylum did – yet more people are diagnosed with mental illnesses than ever before and for many there are no satisfactory options. How might we come to terms with these conditions in the future, and can the original ideal of the asylum – a place of refuge and care – still be recovered?"

  5. Guys, it's 11pm and I literally saw two mostly undetectible things with pointy white shade at one of the side. They were just flying in the sky. I was thinking about the lesson when I noticed it.

  6. From this video I've learned that the way we evaluate mental illness is incorrect and inefficient. I've learned that mental illness originally was viewed as irreversible and uncurable and that lead to a lack of motivation to put forth resources to try to cure people.

  7. Hear that folks, you have to live in such environments in order to behave in such ways. So his life must be perfect in order to make an intellectual design. All environmental pressures have a distress effect

  8. Personally, I’ve been at inpatient mental care aka “a mental asylum” four times. It’s not fun, but over the years they’ve gotten a lot better, you’re not treated as quite human though, it is at least sanitary now.

  9. What do you all think of my mum telling me to watch less educational YouTube because it’s taking away from my social life. She said if I wanna talk about philosophy I should do it with a friend. Do you Agree or think she doesn’t know what introvert means?

  10. This crash course was very thorough and easy to understand. I definitely learned a lot about the history of the DSM just by watching this 10-min video. Thank you!

  11. No one knows the real pain of actually having a mental disorder. It is when you actually realize you’re different from your surroundings and it feels like you’re on the outside. People look at you in a strange way and just know something isn’t right with you. It’s like rejection on the daily basis which makes you not even want to go outside or be around people because you see the outside as a threat now. Then you go on pretending like you’re normal trying to fake be happy and try to blend in with others. People have an instinct and can feel something is not right with you and get “put off” by you. It’s like you have a different energy. You’re just off putting. Yes this is about me and it’s a daily struggle but I’ve been practicing gratitude and working out and trying to think about healthy thoughts. As you get older you realize that you knew you were different from the kids at school but not in a good way. But there is always hope. I keep seeing signs that make me not give up on hope. I know i’ll have a different life from others but i’ll try to make it the best as I can.

  12. I'm not validating distrust, they don't like being lorded or told, neither because that's nerve-wracking because psychology shaped their ethics.

    In summary, doubling worries while worries percieved are potential compulsions which validate paranoia which are potentially nerve-wracking causing or justifying (validating) painfully nervous.

    Depression=suppression/suppressed. Fear/nervousness of/about charisma, criticism~ (hopelessness, hopeful~)

    "Obsolete," racist roads travelled, 1880s – 189… (Subtle, unidentifiable flying objects'~) twilight zone relevance

    PS – the philosopher's stone is genitalia dilemmas because of the need for greed and power expression regarding or revolving like considering balance for and about stability like the sun-moon orbit. Languages are expression conveyed about perceptions.

    Hence videogames, no longer violent, in the future, likely. So expression using media outlets, I guess.

    Racist roads travelled, highways pave rightly over them, I guess.

    Did I beat religiously applied psychology misunderstanding too, apparently?.

    I'm not validating distrust (though I did to see,) they don't like being lorded or told, neither because that's nerve-wracking because psychology shaped their ethics.

  13. Hello, I mean, from my illness, what is the meaning of the Koran? End the peace. End the peace. Please surrender. Please surrender. End the peace

    وشكرن

  14. 6:58 EXACTLY

    This is my absolute favorite explanation of what mental health is. I want to share this a million + more times. This needs to be common knowledge… I definitely learned a few things from this ..

  15. It is hard to get out of mental institutions once in because people get paid to keep you in. The system is set up to make you crazy to justify their income and to sexual abuse crazy people who have no rights. The priest rapes devilish children.

  16. Nature goes on forever for everyone and everything to return as everyone and everything an infinite number of times.😢 😢 😢 Deal with it.

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