PSYC 4039 : MM Exam 1 Notes
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Lots of criticisms: citizens commission on human rights, scientology, antidrug movement, antibiology movement, there is no one theory that is correct, psychiatry, the good, saves lives treating depression for example. Lifetime prevalence of suicide in depression is about 15% Improves the qol reduces suffering and improves functioning: sometimes emotional pain can be as realistic as physical pain, benefits society. In internalism, the historical narrative is focused on the immediate events surrounding a discovery; people, work, thinking, experiments. Ideas from generations past can be shown based on new evidence to be wrong: some sciences deal with non-repeatable events, e. g. , evolutionary biology, geology, cosmology, history is, arguably, lawful. In the first half of the 21st century, mental hospitals were overflowing and at a crisis terrible places to be. Lobotomy was a brain operation to treat a mental illness. If history is science, then the problems of science are the problems of history.
