PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Karl Popper, Collective Unconscious, Gestalt Psychology
24 Mar 2017
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Chapter 15, 16, 17 | lecture 11| mental illness and its treatment. There are three accepted ways to explain abnormal mental behaviour. It is important how we explain mental illness because it directly in uences its treatment. Psychotherapy was introduced in attempt to help people deal with their mental challenges or disturbances. By the 1600s, mental illness was beginning to be viewed as having natural causes: generally people were not treated well, but sometimes we can logically link to a cause. Extreme forms of certain mental illnesses had less than humane treatment: thought to be possessed, may have been punished or put to death (were considered morally de cient or dangerous to society) There were still people that purposed biological causes, although supernatural was the most popular. By the 19th century (the enlightenment era) science sought to improve society, and it became accepted that the origins of mental illness were more biologically based.
