Her exams are 80% textbook based and 20% lecture based. The issue with this is that she keeps a lot of the material in her lectures and textbook separate. So she wants you to go to her lectures, learn that content, and then go home and learn the textbook separately by urself. You cannot pass without the textbook because she will not mention any of this info in the lectures and it is what most of the exam consists of. Some of the content in lectures and textbook overlap, but most of the textbook info is ONLY in the textbook. There is so much content in the textbook chapters and they take hours to read through once, let alone re-read and study. So that part was really stressful and time consuming, but it was definitely worse because I was cramming. But self teaching it all was really annoyin...read more

History of diagnosis, and then each chapter is focused on a different category of disorders like schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, psychosis... and the different specific disorders within these categories ** there is mention of some difficult topics**

Her lectures are super interesting and engaging. She has so many related personal stories that connect to the content, she's really funny, and super nice to talk to. I think she is great. The only thing that was annoying was the whole self-teaching the textbook thing

Just be prepared for the amount of time you'll need to study the textbook in advance. Space out your studying from the week classes start and don't fall behind because cramming the whole textbook in a couple of days is not really an option. It's best to study less each week as you go. But again exams aren't crazy hard once you go through the study process. I got a good grade so it's possible.