《Lecture+19(耶鲁大学-心理学导论讲稿)》.pdf

1 Introduction to Psychology Yale University Lecture 19 The final topic of the course is clinical psychology, also known as abnormal psychology or psychopathology, and this, for many of us, is what psychology is really about. Its about mental illness. Its about clinical psychologists. And we started talking about this when Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema gave her guest lecture last week and I want to continue through this today. It is a topic of tremendous scientific importance but also a topic of great personal importance for many of us. Many of the people in this room have been mentally ill, strictly speaking, at some point in their lives. Some of you are under some sort of therapy or treatment or medical intervention right now. Some of you are on Prozac or Zoloft or Ambien or Wellbutrin or any of those other medications to deal with psychological problems you are facing. Others are also talking to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other people. Many of you who are not at this point mentally ill will become mentally ill during your stay at Yale. [laughter] And this is a difficult period in many peoples lives and its a period of peoples lives where mental illness emerges in many of us. By one estimate, one half of all college graduates in the United States 鈥�and the number is very high with college graduates, highly educated people 鈥�one half of you will have some sort of mental illness in your life serious enough to require some sort of treatment. Those of you not directly affected with mental illness yourselves will no doubt experience your loved ones, your family, your friends getting some sort of illness, be it Alzheimers or schizophrenia or depression or some sort of anxiety disorder. So the personal importance of clinical psychology, the personal importance of understanding what can go wrong and how best to treat it, simply cant be underestimated. Now, when we talk about menta