Psychology 2310A/B Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Maiolino

Document Summary

Carrie fisher: bipolar disorder & substance abuse, uses a combination of ect and pharmacotherapy. People with spiritual belief will use exorcism/priests as treatment). Historical views of abnormal psychology: supernatural beliefs- spiritual. In the middle ages there were witch-hunts. views: biological/medical model- somatogenesis. Hippocrates (400bce: four humours: blood (sanguine), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choleric temperament), black bile (melancholic temperament bloodletting, purging, laxatives, etc. , hysteria wandering uterus", early classification system: mania, Growth of the biomedical model since the melancholia, and phrenitis. Johannes weyer (1500"s) natural causes for mental illness- rejection of exorcism. Shock therapies insulin, ect: ect electricity applied to person"s brain to cause a small seizure in the past there was so much electricity used that sometimes the seizures were so bad patients broke bones. Psychosurgery lobotomies: removing or making the frontal lobe inactive. Psychopharmacology drugs: using drugs for mental illnesses helped revolutionize mental disorders and managing them, lead to discharging a lot of patients.