PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Panic Disorder, Flu Season, Limbic System
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Asylums: residential facilities for the mentally ill, were set up across. Europe, to cure their bodily functions that gave rise to their symptoms. Moral treatment: led patients to be treated with kindness and decency, and freedom to roam the halls and to get fresh air. The substance chlorpromazine and other medications helped cure these mental illnesses, gave a 80% decrease after. The medical model: see psychological conditions through the same lens as western medicine tends to see physical conditions-as sets of symptoms, causes and outcomes, with treatments aimed at changing physiological processes in order to alleviate symptoms. >medical model is mostly focused on the cure than helping in general. > it got overturned by bio psychosocial model because it looked at it overall and more holistically. Dsm-diagnostics and statistical manual of mental disorders: a standardized manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders; this edition described the symptoms for 106 mental illnesses.
