PSY 282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Utica Psychiatric Center, Hippocratic Corpus, Louis Pasteur

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 282
• Professor: Ryan Thibodeau

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Hippocrates (greek physician) is considered to be the father of modern western medicine. He and his associates authored a body of work called the hippocratic corpus , in which they suggested that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease. They believed that psychological disorders might also be caused by brain pathology or head trauma and could be influenced by heredity. Hippocrates considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness, intelligence, and emotion. Galen (roman physician) later adopted the ideas of hippocrates and his associates. Physicians believed that disease resulted from too much or too little of one of the fluids (also called humors). Too much black bile was thought to cause depression. The four humors were related to the greeks" conception of the four basic qualities: heat, dryness, moisture, and cold. Each of the four humors was associated with one of these qualities.