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Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology & Psychotherapy. What should be labeled deviant? What psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or other trained professionals label deviant? (DSM-IV). Or, Only organically based behavioral disorders (Szasz). Treating Insanity.
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Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology & Psychotherapy What should be labeled deviant? • What psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or other trained professionals label deviant? (DSM-IV) Or, • Only organically based behavioral disorders (Szasz).
Treating Insanity • Hippocrates – recognized depression and epilepsy as medical problem. • Middle ages – deviant people were locked up • Bedlam (Bethlehem hospital, London) • Reform movement • Pinel (1790) • Dorothea Dix (1850) • Medical Model (late 19th century)
Medical Model of Mental Illness • Psychiatry an offshoot of neurology (Charcot (1860), Breuer & Freud (1896), Bleuler (1911). • Freud: Too little was known about the brain; opted for psychoanalysis. Classified mental illness into two major categories: neuroses and psychoses. • “General paresis” discovered by Krafft-Ebbing to have a physical cause in 1905 (syphilis). • Pavlov (1904). Concept of conditioning and experimental neurosis that was mediated by specific brain circuits.
Reactions to the Medical Model • Clinical (lay) psychologists allowed to treat patients with “mental” disorders. • Carl Rogers, Ph.D. Published first transcript of a therapeutic session. • Behavior Therapy (Wolpe, Lazarus). Began in 50’s. • Cognitive Therapy (Seligman). Began in 60’s. • Thomas Szaz: Mental illness should only refer to behavioral deviations that have a well defined organic basis. Other deviant behaviors the product of “problems of living”. • DSM-III (1983) & IV (1994) • Harry Stack Sullivan (broke with psychoanalytic tradition).
What is a normal personality? • Least deviant? • What is deviant? • Statistical (does 1/10 of population have mental illness?) • Adaptive sublimation? • Self-actualization? • Quantitative vs. qualitative differences between normal and abnormal.
DSM III (1983) • Disorders first evident in childhood (e.g., mental retardation, hyperactivity). • Organic mental disorders: symptoms directly related to injury to brain or to abnormality (syphilis, Alzheimer’s disease, extreme alcoholism, brain tumor). • Substance use disorders. • Schizophrenic disorders. • Paranoid disorders. • Affective disorders (manic and/or depressed moods). • Somatoform disorders (hysteria, hypochodriasis). • Dissociative disorders (amnesia, multiple personalities). • Psychosexual disorders (transsexualism, frigidity, exhibitionism, sexual sadism, homosexuality-but only if individual is unhappy). • Personality disorders (anti-social behavior, narcissistic personality). • Anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety or panic, phobias,posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder). • Leftovers (marital problems, family therapy).
DSM IV (1994) • Anxiety disorders. • Mood disorders. • Somatoform disorders. • Dissociative disorders. • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disordcrs (delusional). • Substance-related disorders • Eating disorders (aneroxia nervosa, bulimia nervosa). • Sleep disorders. • Impulse control disorders (kleptomania, pyromania, pathological gambling) • Personality disorders (anti-social behavior, narcissistic personality). • Disorders first evident in childhood (e.g., mental retardation, hyperactivity). • Delerium, dementia, amnestic and other cognitive disorders. • Adjustment disorder (Maladaptive, excessive emotional reaction to a stressful event within previous 6 months).
Psychoanalysis • M.D. usually required; Ph.D. in clinical psychology now acceptable (lay analysts) • Training performed by certified institutes in three stages: • formal courses • personal analysis with an institute analyst • control analyses supervised by a training analyst. • Patients: usually brighter than average; in most cases neurotic. Typically excluded are homosexuals, alcoholics, psychotics, patients with character disorders. • Based on Freud’s theory of personality • Many varieties, e.g., Jung, Adler, Sullivan
Types of Personality Tests • Objective • MMPI (Minnesota Multi Phasic Inventory) • Projective • TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) • Rorschach Test
Interpretation of Sample MMPI Score • Overly self-critical • Personality disorder • Poor social adjustment • Unusual thinking and behavior • High level of anxiety
Sample Responses On TAT Test • . • --the doorbell just rang and she’s expecting someone probably pretty dear. • maybe it’s her son--that shows I’m homesick. • stuff in the room--furniture, flowers, bookshelves and books--looks roughly like the middle-class home I came from • she doesn’t look like my mother, but somebody’s mother • even if she has one nude leg. • My first thought is that it looks like a mother coming to the door.
TAT STORIES IN RESPONSE TO “BOY LOOKING AT VIOLIN” • 45-year old business man: • This is a child prodigy dreaming over his violin, thinking more of the music that anything else. But of wonderment that so much music can be in an instrument and in the fingers of his own hand. . . .I would say that possibly he is in reverie about what he can do with his music in the times that lay ahead. He is dreaming of concert halls, tours, and . . . the beauty he will be able to express and even now can express with his own talents.
TAT STORY 2 • 45-Year old clerk: • . . . This is the son of a very well-known, a very good musician. . . . The father has probably died. The only thing the son has left is this violin which is undoubtedly a very good one. . . . To the son, the violin is the father and the son sits there daydreaming of the time that he will understand the music and interpret is on the violin that his father had played.
Incidence of Depression by Country Percentage of population aged 18-24 experiencing major depression at some point in life
Conditions for Psychoanalysis • No psychotics, alcoholics, homosexuals, sociopaths • Time commitment: ~ 5 years • Financial commitment: $150 x 4; $600/week; $27,000/year. • Life decisions placed on hold. No marriage, divorce, moving, changing jobs without consulting analyst. • MD originally required
Psychoanalytic Method • Patient is instructed to free associate. He does this while lying on a couch that is facing away from the analyst. • less fatiguing to the analyst than face-to-face relationships • facilitated free association. • Basic goal is to have awareness of one’s motives and memories. • Dream interpretation • Transference • Treatment consists of three to five 50 minute sessions per week .
Goals of Psychoanalysis • Genetic progression - bring the patient from his point of fixation in the psychosexual development to the genital stage. • Structural - the ego should be strengthened in satisfactory relationships with the super ego. • Dynamic - direct energy from the defense mechanism to more productive outlets. • Topographic- makes the unconscious conscious - specifically, the defense mechanisms.
Client-centered Therapy • Brief duration (~ 10 visits) • Non-directive • Counselor “reflects” rather than “interprets” • No dream analysis • No specific retracing of psychosexual history • Does not assume medical model (client vs. patient; counselor vs. therapist/doctor
Process of Client-Centered Therapy 1. Rigidity - little desire to change. Little recognition of feelings. 2. Perception of problems, externally dispassionate display of feeling. Little recognition of contradictory feelings... 3. Free expression of feelings. Source of feelings considered. Increased awareness of the “real me.” Awareness of contradictions. 4. Immediacy of feelings. Real direct experience. High self-regard. Less intellectualization about self. 5. Acceptance of self and problem.
Excerpts from the first interview in Rogerian Therapy • P (patient): I hesitate to meet people - I hesitate to canvas for my photographic business. I feel a terrific aversion to any kind of activity, even dancing. I normally enjoy dancing very much. But when my inhibition, or whatever you wish to cal it, is on me powerfully, it is an ordeal for me to dance. I notice a difference in my musical ability. On my good days I can harmonize with other people singing. • C (counselor): M-hm.
Excerpts from the first interview in Rogerian Therapy (cont’d) • P: I have a good ear for harmony then. But when I’m blocked, I seem to lose that, as well as my dancing ability. I feel very awkward and stiff. • C: M-hm. So that both in your work and in your recreation you feel blocked. • P: I don’t want to do anything. I just lie around. I get no gusto for any activity at all. • C: You just feel rather unable to do things, is that it? • ************************
Excerpts from the first interview in Rogerian Therapy (cont’d) • P: Well, it’s just reached the point where it becomes unbearable. I’d rather be dead than alive as I am now. • C: You’d rather be dead than alive as you are now? Can you tell me a little more about that? • P: Well, I hope. Of course, we always live on hope. • C: Yes.
Excerpts from the eighth and final interview in Rogerian Therapy • P: Well, I’ve been noticing something decidedly new. Rather than have fluctuations, I’ve been noticing a very gradual and steady improvement. It’s just as if I have become more stabilized and my growth had been one of the hard way and the sure way rather than the wavering and the fluctuating way. • C: M-hm.
Excerpts from the eighth and final interview in Rogerian Therapy • P: I go into situations, and even though it’s an effort, why, I go ahead and make progress, and I find that when you sort of seize the bull by the horns, as it were, why it isn’t so bad as if you deliberate and perhaps - well, think too long about it, like I used to. I sort of say to myself, “Well, I know absolutely that avoiding the situation will leave me in the same rut I’ve been talking,” and I realize that I don’t want to be in the same old rut, so I go ahead and go into the situation, and even when I have disappointments in the situation, I find that they don’t bring me down as much as they used to.
Excerpts from the eighth and final interview in Rogerian Therapy (cont’d) • C: That sounds like very real progress. • P: And what pleases me is that my feelings are on an even keel, steadily improving, which gives me much more of a feeling of security than if I had fluctuations. You see, fluctuations lead you from the peaks to the valleys, and you can’t get as much self-confidence as when you’re having gradual improvement. • C: M-hm. • P: So that the harder way is really the more satisfactory way. • C: Then you’re really finding a step-by-step type of improvement that you hadn’t found before.
Behavior Therapist’s Instructions “Let all your muscles go loose and heavy. Just settle back quietly and comfortably. Wrinkle up your forehead now; wrinkle it tighter....And now stop wrinkling your forehead, relax and smooth it out. “Let all your muscles go loose and heavy. Just settle back quietly and comfortably. Wrinkle up your forehead now; wrinkle it tighter.... “Let all your muscles go loose and heavy. Just settle back quietly and comfortably. “Let all your muscles go loose and heavy. “Let all your muscles go loose and heavy. Just settle back quietly and comfortably. Wrinkle up your forehead now; wrinkle it tighter....And now stop wrinkling your forehead, relax and smooth it out. Picture the entire forehead and scalp becoming smoother as the relaxation increases....
Behavior Therapist’s Instructions Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension.... Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension....Let go of the tension again. Smooth out the forehead once more.... Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension....Let go of the tension again. Smooth out the forehead once more....Now, close your eyes tighter and tighter...feel the tension...and relax your eyes. Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension....Let go of the tension again. Smooth out the forehead once more....Now, close your eyes tighter and tighter...feel the tension...and relax your eyes. Keep your eyes closed, gently, comfortably, and notice the relaxation .... Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension....Let go of the tension again. Smooth out the forehead once more....Now, close your eyes tighter and tighter...feel the tension...and relax your eyes. Keep your eyes closed, gently, comfortably, and notice the relaxation .... Now clench your jaws, bite your teeth together; study the tension throughout the jaws.... Now frown and crease your brows and study the tension....Let go of the tension again. Smooth out the forehead once more....Now, close your eyes tighter and tighter...feel the tension...and relax your eyes. Keep your eyes closed, gently, comfortably, and notice the relaxation .... Now clench your jaws, bite your teeth together; study the tension throughout the jaws....Relax your jaws now. Let your lips part slightly....Appreciate the relaxation....
Behavior Therapist’s Instructions Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension.... Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension....All right, let your tongue return to a comfortable and relaxed position .... Now purse your lips, press your lips together tighter and tighter.... Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension....All right, let your tongue return to a comfortable and relaxed position .... Now purse your lips, press your lips together tighter and tighter....Relax your lips. Note the contrast between tension and relaxation. Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension....All right, let your tongue return to a comfortable and relaxed position .... Now purse your lips, press your lips together tighter and tighter....Relax your lips. Note the contrast between tension and relaxation. Feel the relaxation all over your face, all over your forehead and scalp, eyes, jaws, lips, tongue and throat. The relaxation progresses further and further...”. [from Wolpe and Lazarus (1966), p. 178] Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension....All right, let your tongue return to a comfortable and relaxed position .... Now purse your lips, press your lips together tighter and tighter....Relax your lips. Note the contrast between tension and relaxation. Feel the relaxation all over your face, all over your forehead and scalp, eyes, jaws, lips, tongue and throat. Now press your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth. Look for the tension....All right, let your tongue return to a comfortable and relaxed position ....
BEHAVIOR THERAPY TRANSCRIPT “The patient, a 14-year-old boy, suffered from an intense fear of dogs which lasted for two and one-half to three years. He would take two buses on a roundabout route to school rather than risk exposure to dogs on a direct 300-yard walk. He was rather a dull (IQ = 93), sluggish person, very large for his age, trying to be cooperative, but sadly unresponsive---especially to attempts at training in relaxation.
BEHAVIOR THERAPY TRANSCRIPT (cont’d.) In his desire to please, he would state that he had been perfectly relaxed even though he had betrayed himself by his intense fidgetiness. Training in relaxation was eventually abandoned, and an attempt was made to establish the nature of his aspirations and goals. By dint of much questioning and after following many false trails because of his inarticulateness, a topic was eventually tracked down that was absorbing enough to form the subject of his fantasies, namely, racing motor-cars.
