Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sewage Treatment, Cytopathology, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

If you are not showing symptoms, then therefore you are healthy. Treat the body, eliminate illness health. Health and illness are opposites when health is present, illness is absent and vice versa. This model has been dominant for the past 400 years. Most historians note that the biomedical model can be taken back to the. Prior views: illness stems from evil spirits . So to treat the illness, they assumed you just have to get rid of the evil spirits. They thought you can get rid of the evil spirits by finding an opening in the body in which these spirits can escape most common place was the skull (this is called treatment of trephination) The humoral theory (four body fluids blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm) When these are perfectly balanced, we are in a state of health. This was the influential theory for the next 2000 years. Took a hands on approach of the human body.