let’s discuss the first two axes in more detail now as these are what we typically think of when we think of mental illness or psychopathology . the DSM 4 ( american psychiatric association , 1994) identifies 15 general areas of adult mental illness . will discuss each onr briefly . for mote information about specific category .open psychiatric disorders on the main menu and follow the thinks provided .


let’s discuss the first two axes in more detail now as these are what we typically think of when we think of mental illness or psychopathology . the DSM 4 ( american psychiatric association , 1994) identifies 15 general areas of adult mental illness . will discuss each onr briefly . for mote information about specific category .open psychiatric disorders on the main menu and follow the thinks provided .


Our earlist explanation of what we now refer to as psychopathology involved the possession by evil spirits and demons. Many believed, even as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that the bezarre behavior associated with mental illness could only be can act of the devil himself .