16. Culture and Context of Psychopathology

Question 1

Sickness, or pathology of the mind. Problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that disrupted an individuals sense of well-being or social or occupational functioning.

Answer 1

Psychopathology

Question 2

_____ Theory argued that diagnosis is a way of stigmatising individuals that society considers deviant.

Answer 2

Labelling theory.

Question 2

Labelling can be dangerous because it turns people into _____, whose subsequent actions are interpreted as part of their craziness and who may face discrimination based on the diagnosis.

Answer 2

patients

Question 3

Labelled individuals may also take on the role of a sick of crazy person and hence actually begin to play the part into which they have been cast – a phenomenon known as a ____ ____.

Answer 3

self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 4

Limitations of labelling theory

(1) many disorders are recognised ____ ____ – a suggestion of some universality of their occurrence

Answer 4

cross culturally

Question 6

(2) although the ____ ____ of labelling can indeed be profound, psychologists could neither treat nor research a problem with out trying to distinguish those who have it from those who do not.

Answer 6

negative consequences

Question 7

(3) an accumulating body of evidence suggests that schizophrenia is an illness of the brain, much like Alzheimer’s disease, which no one would similarly describe as an ‘____ ____ of seeing the world’.

Answer 7

alternative way

Question 8

(4) The notion of the noble schizophrenic been branded as crazy by conformist society tends to romanticise ____ ____.

Answer 8

mental illness