PSY 3511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorothea Dix, Clifford Whittingham Beers, Trepanning
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Father of western medicine; how we think about illness, caused by things in the environment and not gods, naturally occurring illness. Somatogenesis: the development of a physical disease or symptoms from an organic pathophysiological cause. Prognosis: how people will fare, focused on what people will do after being diagnosed to get better, emphasis on patient care. Techniques and interventions (precursor of therapy, emphasis on getting to know the patient) diagnostic interviews detailed history trust building. Hippocratic collection: came from the same perspective, not necessarily. Look at patients as people, not as their disease. Early history of the mental health profession middle ages to 17th century. Madness or moral weakness (there is still some stigma today), witchcraft torture, starvation, con nement, hanging, burning, trephining (someone with schizophrenia might have been viewed as possessed) 18th century degenerates of society kept away, institutionalization. Frank parsons vocational counseling: early beginnings of counseling psychology. he wrote a book called choosing a vocation.
