PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Genomics, Psychopharmacology, Pierre Janet
12 Apr 2017
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Ex: spinning people in chairs; throwing cold water on them: paracelsus, a philosopher, physician and toxicologist, differentiated between material and spiritual (psychological) diseases. Noted that some diseases are rooted in psychological conditions: the deception of demons was written as a rebuttal to the malleus. The author argued that witchcraft was irrational and that these women had mental illness or melancholy. Phillipe pinel at the salpetriere, 1795, ordering the removal of chains from patients at the paris asylum for women. Benjamin rush: father of american psychiatry , wrote a book, observations and inquiries upon the diseases of the. Mind (1812) in which he encouraged more humane treatment. Believed that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a possession of demons. However, he still advocated bloodletting and use of rotating and tranquilizing chairs. Dorothea dix: her work brought about institutional reforms in many states and across europe.
