Psychology 2301A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical Model, Behavioral Neuroscience, Ugo Cerletti

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2301A/B
• Professor: Dr. Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

Document Summary

Clinical psychology as a profession: history of treatment, history of assessment, ongoing trends, current issues. Ancient beliefs: demonology/possession, trephining to release evil spirits. Somatogenesis physical cause: hippocrates (400 ad, medical model, some argued emotional cause, physicians not priests. Balance of bodily humors: blood unpredictable, black bile melancholia, phlegm apathetic & anxiousness. Malleus maleficarum the witches hammer (persecution of witches) 1243 the p(cid:396)io(cid:396)y of st. (cid:373)a(cid:396)y of bethlehe(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:271)edla(cid:373)(cid:863)(cid:895: patients shackled, deplorable conditions, seen as entertainment. Treatment: blood letting, swinging treatment, scare treatment. Reasons for admission: west virginia hospital for the insane. 1907 sterilization of mentally ill and criminals. Despite this (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, so(cid:373)e t(cid:396)eat(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ue to see (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:396)(cid:271)a(cid:396)i(cid:272)(cid:863) (cid:271)y todays standards. And their exercise or manifestation depends on organisation. Brain is the organ of all the propensities, sentiments and faculties. The form of the head or cranium represents the form of the brain and thus reflects the relative development of the brain. Still the basis of the most mental illness diagnosos.