Failure to function adequately

 

Read the two newspaper articles below. 

Human Mole 

Buried Alive

Apply the failure to function adequately definition to the description of the behaviour in the two newspaper articles. Explain why according to this definition the two people described may have had a mental disorder or mental illness.

Definitions of abnormality

 "If sanity and insanity exist how shall we know them?" David Rosenhan: 'On being sane in insane Places" (1973).

 "How can you tell who's sane and who's insane?' Homer Simpson: 'Stark raving dad' (1991).

In 1973 the psychologist David Rosenhan rang up eight of his friends and asked them what they were doing for the next few weeks. This call launched one of the most famous psychological experiments ever conducted.

If you want to read more, click here: Definitions of abnormality 

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