Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mental Disorder, Personality Disorder, Psychosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

A long time ago before we had any understanding of mental illness, anyone who was. "abnormal" was considered to be mentally ill and there was really no viable treatment options. Supernatural forces - people used to think that those who were mentally ill were possessed by the devilthis belief comes from the ancient chinese, egyptians, and hebrews. Trephination - to treat this, holes were drilled in the skull to let the evil spirits out. This just resulted in erratic behaviour being numbed due to the effects of severe brain damage, but the disorder was not actually cured. Biological basis - by the 1800s, western medicine began to view mental disorders as having. Vulnerability-stress model - modern model in which each person has some degree of a biological basis and began to attempt to extend medical diagnoses to them vulnerability for developing a psychological disorder, given sufficient stress.