PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes -Chloral Hydrate, Dorothea Dix, Catholic Church
Document Summary
Hippocrate was the first person to separate religion/magic/superstition. Earlist proponents of somatogenesis: something is wrong with the body, would create psychological problems. In contrast: psychogenesis: in contrast, is the belief that a disturbance has psychological origins. Hippocrate"s physiology: normal brain functioning and therefore of mental health, as dependent on a delicate balance among four humours or fluids of the body: blood, black bile, yellow phlegm. For melancholia: ztranquility, sobriety, care in choosing good and drink and abstince in sexual activity. The death of galen, the second-century greek marked the beginning of the dark ages for. During 13th centuary, people turned to demonology to explain disaseters like the plagues/femine. Popo sent two domincian monks to northern germany as inquisters, malleus maleficarum: the witches hammer. Some of the witches were mentally ill, some were not. Some of them had confessions when they were tortured, in england where torture was not allowed, people did not receive these confessions.
