PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Asylums: residential facilities for the mentally ill. General goal -> curing the patients" bodily afflictions that gave rise to their symptoms. Their treatments would certainly not meet modern standards of medical care and were generally ineffective, such as draining up to 40% of a person"s total blood volume or throwing the person into a pit of snakes. Moral treatment -> led to patients being treated with kindness and decency, able to roam the hospital halls and get outside for fresh air. Formed by two heroic figures, philippe pinel, a physician in france and. The success of chlorpromazine and other medications led to widespread deinstitutionalization, which saw the number of psychiatric inpatients drop by over 80% over the next three decades. Middle ages -> medical model: sees 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.
