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Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Failure to Function Adequately

Today we looked in more detail at the FFA definition of abnormality.

Here is the presentation from the lesson.

Here is the video of Jon Ronson plugging his recent Psychopath book:

Psychopaths (or sociopaths to give them their more modern name) are relevant to your evaluation of FFA because in most senses they function perfectly well - in fact they are usually 'high functioning' individuals who, partly because of their lack of empathy and ability to manipulate, rise to the top of their professions.

Your homework for Thursday is to add a half-page evaluation of FFA to your one for DSN - make sure you can explain the difference between the definitions - there is some overlap, so examples of behaviours which are normal according to one but abnormal according to the other are useful.

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