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RUNING HEAD: Abnormal Behavior and Psychopathology

Abnormal Behavior and Psychopathology

Abnormal Psychology

University of Phoenix

Abnormal Behavior and Psychopathology

According to Butcher, Mineka and Hooley, (2007), the earliest treatment of mental disorders were practiced by Stone Age. For certain mental disorders, such as those who complained of headache and showed raging behavior, it was blamed on bad spirits. During this age, abnormal behavior often attributed to possession and those possessions depended on the person’s symptoms. If a person’s speech or behavior appeared to have mystical significance, it was usually labeled as good spirit or god. Such people were often treated with respect and “people believed they had supernatural powers” (Butcher, Mineka, Hooley, 2007, p. 3). However, many possessions were considered to be due to an evil spirit particularly signs of excitement, overreaction, or when a person was engaged in a behavior that was……

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