PSYC-307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Framingham Heart Study, Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychological Trauma
14 Dec 2017
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Freud"s hysteria and psychosomatic conditions : freud believed that hysteria was physical symptoms with no known organic physical cause (ex paralysis in a limb despite the entire body being fine/nerve normality) Freud suggested it was an underlying psychological trauma. Psychosomatic medicine arises later: distinction between organically caused conditions and psychological causes of effects on the soma (body): asthma, migraines and ulcers were thought to be bodily manifestations of psychological events. High mortality rates: change in illness from acute infectious disease to chronic illness, esp. heart disease such as ischemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, plaque in the veins,myocardial infarction (heart attack) Measured longitudinally: what precursor or personality indicators of increased risk of heart disease. Framingham heart study: cholesterol, hypertension, diet, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, weight gain, sex and age, family history all predict heart disease. Fixed versus modifiable risk: sex and age are fixed, while sedentary lifestyle is modifiable.
