Psychological Disorders

• Unusual, maladaptive, uncomfortable and bizarre behaviour

• DSM “Clinically significant behaviour, associated with distress and disability, not simply a predictable and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event, which is considered to reflext behavioural, psychological or biological dysfunction”

• Wakefield - mental condition that causes significant distress and disability which is not merely an acceptable response to a particular event and is a manifestation of mental dysfunction.

• Abnormality