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Nrmality is quite hard to define. The line between what is considered normal and abnormal is not always clear. There are different ways to look at normality. Normal Behaviour refers to a lack of significant deviation from the average.
Normality is thus the deviation from average. There are quite some models for looking at normality.

One model is to place behaviour on a straight line between two point. One extreme point is supernormality, and the other is abnormality. Normality is found around the middle of the line.

Another model is that normality is found between an ideal and a despised self. Normality is the balance between the two.

Throughout history, different theorists have put forwards different theories to try and define normality. I am going to focus on 3 approaches only. The psychoanalytic, learning and cognitive approaches.

The psychoanalytic perspective
When we think of psychoanalytic the one name that comes to mind is Freud. For freud, The mind is......

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