PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paresis, Emil Kraepelin, Head Injury
6 Aug 2020
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Agents outside our bodies and environment influence our behavior/thinking/emotions. Things like: divinities. demons, spirits, magnetic field, moon. Deviance: reflection of the battle between good and evil behavior. Exorcism: burn yourself; make evil not comfortable so that you become accustomedto good. Mass hysteria(lg. scale outbreaks of bizarre behavior) can be exacerbated by this point of view. Examples in medieval days: st. vitus"s dance and tarantism: outbreaks of everyone at once dancing in the streets, shouting, raving, and going wild. (aka a. Psychological diseases can be treated like any other diseases. Psychological disorders caused by brain pathology/ head trauma/ influenced by genetics. Recognized that sometimes family and stress can be factors of psychological disorders- removed patients from family sometimes. Hysteron) cure to hysteria: marriage, fumigation of uterus to lure the uterus back to its natural location. Treatments for excess humors(blood heart, black bile spleen, yellow bile liver, phlegm brain): Others used heat, dryness, moisture, cold, bloodletting, and induced vomiting.
