Psychopathology

Viktorie Nagyová
What is
psychopathology?

• Psychiatric disorders

• Abnormal behaviors and experiences

• Deviance

• Distress

• Dysfunction

• Danger
What is bad about
psychopathology?

• Not always reliable

• Diagnosis based on symptoms

• Overdiagnosis

• Boundaries

• Cultural bias

• Harm of labels
 Reassurance

Support
What is good about
psychopathology?
Community

Normalisation
What are we going to talk about?

Psychopathy, Borderline
Sociopathy, personality Bipolar disorder
Narcissism disorder

Disorders which
Autism, ADHD,
can manifest later
ADD, OCD
in life
How to approach each condition

History

Stigma, myths

True facts

Representation (real, fictional)

What to do if you meet them?

WARNING

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THERE IS ALOT OF STIGMA AND EACH PERSON IS AFFECTED

DIFFERENT DIAGNOSES ARE LIES ABOUT MANY OF THE DIFFERENTLY !!!
HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL EVEN CONDITIONS
AMONG RESEARCHERS
Psychopathy

• Antisocial personality disorder

• Immoral, insane

• Stigma related to decisions about punishment

severity for criminal acts

• No regret or remorse

• Arrogant, deceitful, irresponsible

• Causes : genetic, environmental, brain damage

What do facts show?
Sociopathy

• They have empathy?

• Impulsive

• Causes : genetic, trauma

Narcissism

• Narcissistic personality disorder

• Destructive levels of narcissism

• Lack of empathy

• Causes : mostly hereditary

• Linked to individualistic cultures

Borderline
Personality Disorder

• Intense and unstable relationships,

emotions

• High risk of suicides and self-harm

• Strongly stigmatised by popular media

• Afraid of abandonment, paranoid

• “Impulsive behavior“

• Causes : genetic, trauma

Bipolar disorder

• Changing phases

• Mania – energetic, impulsive

• Depression – risk of suicide, anxiety

• Calm

• Causes: mostly genetic

• Mood stabilisers, antidepressives

ADHD / ADD
• Diffi culty concentrating on a task

• Jumping from task to task

• Problems with procrastination and time

managemet

• Linked to creative thinking

• Also linked to criminality- strong stigma

• Problem with overdiagnosis

• Causes : genetic, environmental, society

Autism Spectrum
Disorder
• Strong stigma – horrible representation,
fakenews, researchers

• Diff erent thinking – diff erent brain

• Spectrum!

• Aspergers?

• Causes???

• Is autism good?

• Linked to intelligence, naivity

• Strong underdiagnosis

• Negative public perseption

Obsessive-
compulsive disorder

• Intrusive thoughts - obsessions

• Routines, rules – anxiety

• Symetry, cleaness

• It is a serious condition!
 Basically, you can cause
Disorders them yourself!
which can
manifest in
They are genetic, but
your 20s are often
environmentally
triggered!
Schizophrenia

• Psychosis, halucinations (mostly sounds,

sometimes visual)

• Thought disorders

• Antipsychotics, clozapine, long hospitalised visits

• Psychotic episodes

• Linked to cognitive defi cits

• Triggers – trauma, stress

• Linked to substance use

Epilepsy (usually not
included)

• Linked

• Neuron shock – similar to computer error

• Triggers – bad lifestyle (sleep, stress)

• Medications and regular hospital checks

• Rules
People with a
diagnosis are
people too!
Th e e nd of the pr es en ta ti on , th an k you for your a tt ent ion