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Using lively and engaging real-life examples Dr. Crosby gives insights into innate human behavior and its role within the financial markets.
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In this entertaining book he provides brilliant invaluable practical framework for investors, financial professionals and anyone in search of true wealth. Svetlana Gherzi, Behavioral Finance Specialist, UBS Drawing the connection that what makes us interesting as humans can make us unsuccessful at managing our money in times of turbulence, Dr. Crosby provides a safe haven with his framework for success. This book is not only informative but enjoyable, as he gently exposes how human behavior impacts our decision making.
Savvy investors and advisors understand that emotions, decisions and behavior are at least as important as big returns and Dr. If he s publishing, blogging, or Tweeting, I want to know about it. It also doesn't hurt that he's often hilarious in taking our built-in foibles and creating the potential for ending up in a much better place than we would otherwise. This book is yet another fantastic contribution to the practice of sound and sane investing.
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A number of different personality disorders are listed, including those sometimes classed as "eccentric", such as paranoid , schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders; types that have described as "dramatic" or "emotional", such as antisocial , borderline , histrionic or narcissistic personality disorders; and those sometimes classed as fear-related, such as anxious-avoidant , dependent , or obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.
The personality disorders, in general, are defined as emerging in childhood, or at least by adolescence or early adulthood. The ICD also has a category for enduring personality change after a catastrophic experience or psychiatric illness. If an inability to sufficiently adjust to life circumstances begins within three months of a particular event or situation, and ends within six months after the stressor stops or is eliminated, it may instead be classed as an adjustment disorder.
There is an emerging consensus that so-called "personality disorders", like personality traits in general, actually incorporate a mixture of acute dysfunctional behaviors that may resolve in short periods, and maladaptive temperamental traits that are more enduring. Eating disorders involve disproportionate concern in matters of food and weight. Sleep disorders such as insomnia involve disruption to normal sleep patterns, or a feeling of tiredness despite sleep appearing normal.
Sexual disorders and gender dysphoria may be diagnosed, including dyspareunia and ego-dystonic homosexuality. Various kinds of paraphilia are considered mental disorders sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are considered abnormal or harmful to the person or others. People who are abnormally unable to resist certain urges or impulses that could be harmful to themselves or others, may be classed as having an impulse control disorder, and disorders such as kleptomania stealing or pyromania fire-setting.
Various behavioral addictions, such as gambling addiction, may be classed as a disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder can sometimes involve an inability to resist certain acts but is classed separately as being primarily an anxiety disorder. The use of drugs legal or illegal, including alcohol , when it persists despite significant problems related to its use, may be defined as a mental disorder.
The DSM incorporates such conditions under the umbrella category of substance use disorders , which includes substance dependence and substance abuse. Disordered substance use may be due to a pattern of compulsive and repetitive use of the drug that results in tolerance to its effects and withdrawal symptoms when use is reduced or stopped.
People who suffer severe disturbances of their self-identity, memory and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings may be classed as having a dissociative identity disorder , such as depersonalization disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder itself which has also been called multiple personality disorder, or "split personality". Other memory or cognitive disorders include amnesia or various kinds of old age dementia. A range of developmental disorders that initially occur in childhood may be diagnosed, for example autism spectrum disorders, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder , and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD , which may continue into adulthood.
Conduct disorder, if continuing into adulthood, may be diagnosed as antisocial personality disorder dissocial personality disorder in the ICD. Popularist labels such as psychopath or sociopath do not appear in the DSM or ICD but are linked by some to these diagnoses. Somatoform disorders may be diagnosed when there are problems that appear to originate in the body that are thought to be manifestations of a mental disorder.
This includes somatization disorder and conversion disorder. There are also disorders of how a person perceives their body, such as body dysmorphic disorder. There are attempts to introduce a category of relational disorder , where the diagnosis is of a relationship rather than on any one individual in that relationship.
The relationship may be between children and their parents, between couples, or others. There already exists, under the category of psychosis, a diagnosis of shared psychotic disorder where two or more individuals share a particular delusion because of their close relationship with each other. Various new types of mental disorder diagnosis are occasionally proposed.
Among those controversially considered by the official committees of the diagnostic manuals include self-defeating personality disorder , sadistic personality disorder , passive-aggressive personality disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Two recent unique unofficial proposals are solastalgia by Glenn Albrecht and hubris syndrome by David Owen. The application of the concept of mental illness to the phenomena described by these authors has in turn been critiqued by Seamus Mac Suibhne. The likely course and outcome of mental disorders varies and is dependent on numerous factors related to the disorder itself, the individual as a whole, and the social environment.
Some disorders are transient, while others may be more chronic in nature. Even those disorders often considered the most serious and intractable have varied courses i. Long-term international studies of schizophrenia have found that over a half of individuals recover in terms of symptoms, and around a fifth to a third in terms of symptoms and functioning, with many requiring no medication.
While some have serious difficulties and support needs for many years, "late" recovery is still plausible. The World Health Organization concluded that the long-term studies' findings converged with others in "relieving patients, carers and clinicians of the chronicity paradigm which dominated thinking throughout much of the 20th century.
Around half of people initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder achieve syndromal recovery no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis within six weeks, and nearly all achieve it within two years, with nearly half regaining their prior occupational and residential status in that period.
Less than half go on to experience a new episode of mania or major depression within the next two years. Some disorders may be very limited in their functional effects, while others may involve substantial disability and support needs. The degree of ability or disability may vary over time and across different life domains. Furthermore, continued disability has been linked to institutionalization , discrimination and social exclusion as well as to the inherent effects of disorders.
Alternatively, functioning may be affected by the stress of having to hide a condition in work or school etc. It is also the case that, while often being characterized in purely negative terms, some mental traits or states labeled as disorders can also involve above-average creativity, non-conformity, goal-striving, meticulousness, or empathy. Nevertheless, internationally, people report equal or greater disability from commonly occurring mental conditions than from commonly occurring physical conditions, particularly in their social roles and personal relationships.
The proportion with access to professional help for mental disorders is far lower, however, even among those assessed as having a severely disabling condition. In terms of total Disability-adjusted life years DALYs , which is an estimate of how many years of life are lost due to premature death or to being in a state of poor health and disability, mental disorders rank amongst the most disabling conditions. Unipolar also known as Major depressive disorder is the third leading cause of disability worldwide, of any condition mental or physical, accounting for The total DALY does not necessarily indicate what is the most individually disabling because it also depends on how common a condition is; for example, schizophrenia is found to be the most individually disabling mental disorder on average but is less common.
Alcohol-use disorders are also high in the overall list, responsible for Schizophrenia causes a total loss of Panic disorder leads to 7 million years lost, obsessive-compulsive disorder 5. The first ever systematic description of global disability arising in youth, published in , found that among to year-olds nearly half of all disability current and as estimated to continue was due to mental and neurological conditions, including substance use disorders and conditions involving self-harm.
Second to this were accidental injuries mainly traffic collisions accounting for 12 percent of disability, followed by communicable diseases at 10 percent. Suicide , which is often attributed to some underlying mental disorder, is a leading cause of death among teenagers and adults under The predominant view as of is that biological, psychological, and environmental factors all contribute to the development or progression of mental disorders.
Mental disorders are associated with drug use including: Risk factors for mental illness include a propensity for high neuroticism [61] [62] or "emotional instability". In anxiety, risk factors may include temperament and attitudes e. Twin studies have revealed very high heritability for many mental disorders especially autism and schizophrenia. A number of disorders are linked to a family history including depression, [66] narcissistic personality disorder [67] [68] and anxiety. In schizophrenia and psychosis, risk factors include migration and discrimination, childhood trauma, bereavement or separation in families, abuse of drugs, [69] and urbanicity.
In anxiety, risk factors may include parenting factors including parental rejection, lack of parental warmth, high hostility, harsh discipline, high maternal negative affect, anxious childrearing, modelling of dysfunctional and drug-abusing behaviour, and child abuse emotional, physical and sexual. For bipolar disorder , stress such as childhood adversity is not a specific cause, but does place genetically and biologically vulnerable individuals at risk for a more severe course of illness.
Social influences have also been found to be important, [73] including abuse , neglect , bullying , social stress , traumatic events , and other negative or overwhelming life experiences. Aspects of the wider community have also been implicated, [70] including employment problems, socioeconomic inequality , lack of social cohesion, problems linked to migration , and features of particular societies and cultures.
The specific risks and pathways to particular disorders are less clear, however. Mental disorders can arise from multiple sources, and in many cases there is no single accepted or consistent cause currently established. An eclectic or pluralistic mix of models may be used to explain particular disorders. Biological psychiatry follows a biomedical model where many mental disorders are conceptualized as disorders of brain circuits likely caused by developmental processes shaped by a complex interplay of genetics and experience.
A common assumption is that disorders may have resulted from genetic and developmental vulnerabilities, exposed by stress in life for example in a diathesis—stress model , although there are various views on what causes differences between individuals. Some types of mental disorders may be viewed as primarily neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Evolutionary psychology may be used as an overall explanatory theory, while attachment theory is another kind of evolutionary-psychological approach sometimes applied in the context of mental disorders. Psychoanalytic theories have continued to evolve alongside and cognitive - behavioral and systemic-family approaches. A distinction is sometimes made between a " medical model " or a " social model " of disorder and disability.
Psychiatrists seek to provide a medical diagnosis of individuals by an assessment of symptoms , signs and impairment associated with particular types of mental disorder. Other mental health professionals, such as clinical psychologists, may or may not apply the same diagnostic categories to their clinical formulation of a client's difficulties and circumstances. Routine diagnostic practice in mental health services typically involves an interview known as a mental status examination , where evaluations are made of appearance and behavior, self-reported symptoms, mental health history, and current life circumstances.
The views of other professionals, relatives or other third parties may be taken into account. A physical examination to check for ill health or the effects of medications or other drugs may be conducted. Psychological testing is sometimes used via paper-and-pen or computerized questionnaires, which may include algorithms based on ticking off standardized diagnostic criteria, and in rare specialist cases neuroimaging tests may be requested, but such methods are more commonly found in research studies than routine clinical practice. Time and budgetary constraints often limit practicing psychiatrists from conducting more thorough diagnostic evaluations.
On the other hand, a person may have several different difficulties only some of which meet the criteria for being diagnosed. There may be specific problems with accurate diagnosis in developing countries. So, according to Caplan, getting a psychiatric diagnosis and label often stands in the way of recovery. In , psychiatrist Allen Frances wrote a paper entitled "The New Crisis of Confidence in Psychiatric Diagnosis", which said that "psychiatric diagnosis… still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
Kirk have "been accusing psychiatry of engaging in the systematic medicalization of normality. The WHO report "Prevention of Mental Disorders" stated that "Prevention of these disorders is obviously one of the most effective ways to reduce the [disease] burden. Parenting may affect the child's mental health, and evidence suggests that helping parents to be more effective with their children can address mental health needs.
Universal prevention aimed at a population that has no increased risk for developing a mental disorder, such as school programs or mass media campaigns need very high numbers of people to show effect sometimes known as the "power" problem. Approaches to overcome this are 1 focus on high-incidence groups e. Treatment and support for mental disorders is provided in psychiatric hospitals , clinics or any of a diverse range of community mental health services.
A number of professions have developed that specialize in the treatment of mental disorders. This includes the medical specialty of psychiatry including psychiatric nursing , [96] [97] [98] the field of psychology known as clinical psychology , [99] and the practical application of sociology known as social work. In addition, there are peer support roles where personal experience of similar issues is the primary source of expertise.
In some countries services are increasingly based on a recovery approach , intended to support each individual's personal journey to gain the kind of life they want, although there may also be 'therapeutic pessimism' in some areas. There are a range of different types of treatment and what is most suitable depends on the disorder and on the individual.
Many things have been found to help at least some people, and a placebo effect may play a role in any intervention or medication. In a minority of cases, individuals may be treated against their will, which can cause particular difficulties depending on how it is carried out and perceived. Compulsory treatment while in the community versus non-compulsory treatment does not appear to make much of a difference except by maybe decreasing victimization.
A major option for many mental disorders is psychotherapy. There are several main types. Cognitive behavioral therapy CBT is widely used and is based on modifying the patterns of thought and behavior associated with a particular disorder. Psychoanalysis , addressing underlying psychic conflicts and defenses, has been a dominant school of psychotherapy and is still in use. Systemic therapy or family therapy is sometimes used, addressing a network of significant others as well as an individual.
Some psychotherapies are based on a humanistic approach. There are a number of specific therapies used for particular disorders, which may be offshoots or hybrids of the above types. Mental health professionals often employ an eclectic or integrative approach. Much may depend on the therapeutic relationship , and there may be problems with trust , confidentiality and engagement. A major option for many mental disorders is psychiatric medication and there are several main groups.
Antidepressants are used for the treatment of clinical depression , as well as often for anxiety and a range of other disorders. Anxiolytics including sedatives are used for anxiety disorders and related problems such as insomnia. Mood stabilizers are used primarily in bipolar disorder. Antipsychotics are used for psychotic disorders, notably for positive symptoms in schizophrenia , and also increasingly for a range of other disorders. Stimulants are commonly used, notably for ADHD. Despite the different conventional names of the drug groups, there may be considerable overlap in the disorders for which they are actually indicated, and there may also be off-label use of medications.
There can be problems with adverse effects of medication and adherence to them, and there is also criticism of pharmaceutical marketing and professional conflicts of interest. Electroconvulsive therapy ECT is sometimes used in severe cases when other interventions for severe intractable depression have failed. Psychosurgery is considered experimental but is advocated by some neurologists in certain rare cases. Counseling professional and co-counseling between peers may be used. Psychoeducation programs may provide people with the information to understand and manage their problems.
Creative therapies are sometimes used, including music therapy , art therapy or drama therapy. Lifestyle adjustments and supportive measures are often used, including peer support, self-help groups for mental health and supported housing or supported employment including social firms. Some advocate dietary supplements.
Reasonable accommodations adjustments and supports might be put in place to help an individual cope and succeed in environments despite potential disability related to mental health problems. This could include an emotional support animal or specifically trained psychiatric service dog. Mental disorders are common. Worldwide, more than one in three people in most countries report sufficient criteria for at least one at some point in their life. A review of anxiety disorder surveys in different countries found average lifetime prevalence estimates of In the United States the frequency of disorder is: A cross-Europe study found that approximately one in four people reported meeting criteria at some point in their life for at least one of the DSM-IV disorders assessed, which included mood disorders Approximately one in ten met criteria within a month period.
Women and younger people of either gender showed more cases of disorder. An international review of studies on the prevalence of schizophrenia found an average median figure of 0. Studies of the prevalence of personality disorders PDs have been fewer and smaller-scale, but one broad Norwegian survey found a five-year prevalence of almost 1 in 7 Rates for specific disorders ranged from 0. While rates of psychological disorders are often the same for men and women, women tend to have a higher rate of depression.
Each year 73 million women are affected by major depression, and suicide is ranked 7th as the cause of death for women between the ages of 20— Depressive disorders account for close to Ancient civilizations described and treated a number of mental disorders. Mental illnesses were well known in ancient Mesopotamia , [] where diseases and mental disorders were believed to be caused by specific deities. Mental disorders were described, and treatments developed, in Persia, Arabia and in the medieval Islamic world.
Conceptions of madness in the Middle Ages in Christian Europe were a mixture of the divine, diabolical, magical and humoral and transcendental. While not every witch and sorcerer accused were mentally ill, all mentally ill were considered to be witches or sorcerers. By the end of the 17th century and into the Enlightenment , madness was increasingly seen as an organic physical phenomenon with no connection to the soul or moral responsibility. Asylum care was often harsh and treated people like wild animals, but towards the end of the 18th century a moral treatment movement gradually developed.
Clear descriptions of some syndromes may be rare prior to the 19th century. Industrialization and population growth led to a massive expansion of the number and size of insane asylums in every Western country in the 19th century.
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Numerous different classification schemes and diagnostic terms were developed by different authorities, and the term psychiatry was coined , though medical superintendents were still known as alienists. The turn of the 20th century saw the development of psychoanalysis, which would later come to the fore, along with Kraepelin 's classification scheme. Asylum "inmates" were increasingly referred to as "patients", and asylums renamed as hospitals. Early in the 20th century in the United States, a mental hygiene movement developed, aiming to prevent mental disorders.
Clinical psychology and social work developed as professions.
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World War I saw a massive increase of conditions that came to be termed " shell shock ". World War II saw the development in the U. The term stress , having emerged from endocrinology work in the s, was increasingly applied to mental disorders. Electroconvulsive therapy , insulin shock therapy , lobotomies and the " neuroleptic " chlorpromazine came to be used by mid-century. In the s there were many challenges to the concept of mental illness itself.
These challenges came from psychiatrists like Thomas Szasz who argued that mental illness was a myth used to disguise moral conflicts; from sociologists such as Erving Goffman who said that mental illness was merely another example of how society labels and controls non-conformists; from behavioural psychologists who challenged psychiatry's fundamental reliance on unobservable phenomena; and from gay rights activists who criticised the APA's listing of homosexuality as a mental disorder.
A study published in Science by Rosenhan received much publicity and was viewed as an attack on the efficacy of psychiatric diagnosis. Deinstitutionalization gradually occurred in the West, with isolated psychiatric hospitals being closed down in favor of community mental health services. Other kinds of psychiatric medication gradually came into use, such as "psychic energizers" later antidepressants and lithium.
Benzodiazepines gained widespread use in the s for anxiety and depression, until dependency problems curtailed their popularity. Advances in neuroscience , genetics and psychology led to new research agendas. Cognitive behavioral therapy and other psychotherapies developed. The DSM and then ICD adopted new criteria-based classifications, and the number of "official" diagnoses saw a large expansion. Through the s, new SSRI -type antidepressants became some of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, as later did antipsychotics. Also during the s, a recovery approach developed. Different societies or cultures , even different individuals in a subculture , can disagree as to what constitutes optimal versus pathological biological and psychological functioning.
Research has demonstrated that cultures vary in the relative importance placed on, for example, happiness, autonomy, or social relationships for pleasure. Likewise, the fact that a behavior pattern is valued, accepted, encouraged, or even statistically normative in a culture does not necessarily mean that it is conducive to optimal psychological functioning. People in all cultures find some behaviors bizarre or even incomprehensible. The researchers point out that, as we are repeatedly bombarded with such images through advertisements, and constantly described by the media as consumers, these temporary effects could be triggered more or less continuously.
A third paper , published paradoxically in the Journal of Consumer Research, studied 2, people for six years. It found a two-way relationship between materialism and loneliness: People who are cut off from others attach themselves to possessions. This attachment in turn crowds out social relationships. The two varieties of materialism that have this effect — using possessions as a yardstick of success and seeking happiness through acquisition — are the varieties that seem to be on display on Rich Kids of Instagram. It was only after reading this paper that I understood why those photos distressed me: Perhaps this is one of the reasons an economic model based on perpetual growth continues on its own terms to succeed, though it may leave a trail of unpayable debts, mental illness and smashed relationships.
Social atomisation may be the best sales strategy ever devised, and continuous marketing looks like an unbeatable programme for atomisation. Materialism forces us into comparison with the possessions of others, a race both cruelly illustrated and crudely propelled by that toxic website. There is no end to it. If you have four Rolexes while another has five, you are a Rolex short of contentment. The material pursuit of self-esteem reduces your self-esteem. I should emphasise that this is not about differences between rich and poor: It is a general social affliction, visited upon us by government policy, corporate strategy, the collapse of communities and civic life, and our acquiescence in a system that is eating us from the inside out.
This is the dreadful mistake we are making: Worldly ambition, material aspiration, perpetual growth: A fully referenced version of this article can be found at Monbiot.