PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mania, Douche, Forlorn Hope
31 Mar 2016
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Therapy refers to how mental disorders are treated, with the help of the knowledge base of psychology. Major types of psychotherapy include psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavior, cognitive, and individual, group, and family psychotherapy. Issues in psychotherapy include culture, gender, values, effective factors and types, and the evaluation of psychotherapy effectiveness. We"ll also look at a few biomedical therapies such as drugs, brain stimulation, surgery, and lifestyle change. When people have displayed unusual behaviors rooted in the mind, these people have often been locked away or treated using old ideas of mental illness. Old ways of getting rid of the evil spirits include: Letting the spirits out through holes drilled in the skull. Early mental health workers used water dowsing, or hydrotherapy, for psychological disorders. Here a patient at the pennsylvania hospital for the insane gets a cold douche bath (haskell, 1869). Such treatments were given in the forlorn hope that something might work, but often they were simply torture.
