Colin DeYoung || Rethinking Mental Illness

The Psychology Podcast

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today it’s great to have Colin DeYoung on the podcast. Dr. DeYoung is a professor in the psychology department at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Personality, Individual Differences and Behavioral Genetics program. He researches the structures and sources of psychological traits using neuroscience methods to investigate their biological substrates. He developed a general theory of personality: Cybernetic Big Five Theory which identifies psychological functions associated with major personality traits as well as their connection to other elements of personality and various life outcomes including mental illness. Topics · Definitions of mental illness · The problem with DSM-5’s diagnostic categories · The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) · What is cybernetics? · A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology · How Colin’s theory differs from abnormal psychology · Differences between mental disorder and psychopathology · Characteristic adaptations and personality traits · Moving towards a dimensional model of psychopathology · What qualifies as cybernetic dysfunction? · Narcissism, anti-social behavior, and successful psychopaths · Legal interventions for risky profiles without stigmatization · The need for non-pharmacological interventions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Today, it's great to have Colin D. Young on the podcast. Dr. D. Young is a professor in
0:20.2	the Psychology Department at the University of Minnesota and the Director of the Personality
0:24.3	Individual Differences and Behavioral Genetics Program. He researches the structure and
0:29.0	sources of psychological traits using neuroscience methods to investigate their biological substrates.
0:34.6	He developed a general theory of personality, cybernetic big five theory, which identifies
0:39.5	psychological functions associated with major personality traits as well as their connection
0:43.8	to other elements of personality and various life outcomes, including mental illness. Colin,
0:49.4	it's so good to chat with you again on the Psychology podcast.
0:52.2	That's great to see you, Scott.
0:54.2	You are, you may take the cake as top, no, you do take the cake as top five of my closest
1:03.2	friends and collaborators who have appeared on the podcast.
1:06.2	All right, on. So there you go. That's, it's an honor.
1:10.9	Well, it's a real honor for me. It's been a nice, a nice journey of getting to know you
1:17.2	and all the topics that we debate and discuss. And it's really, you've really enriched my life.
1:21.9	Just what you know. It's been a, it's been a while now, right? What is it?
1:24.9	Yeah, over 15 years almost that we've done each other.
1:29.0	Yeah, decade and a half almost. It's, it's amazing. And I, I feel like while we both
1:35.4	grown, there's still this like little child that comes out when we get together.
1:42.4	Like the playful, you know, that, that part of us, I think, still there.
1:46.4	I hope so. Yeah, I hope so too. But let's, let's, let's, what, let's say what you say?
1:52.0	I was going to say we'll see how silly the podcast gets.
1:55.6	Well, it's, yeah, it's now we don't need to put pressure on ourselves to be silly, but
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