PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychosomatic Medicine, Autonomic Nervous System, Biopsychosocial Model
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Lecture 1 chapter 1 : what is health psychology. Middle ages: they would beat you until evil spirits left you, so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es they associated religio(cid:374) to ill(cid:374)ess sayi(cid:374)g if you did(cid:374)"t co(cid:373)e to church you would get sick. Renaissance: dualism, mind and body are different, physicians will deal with body while philosophers will deal with mind. Freud and conversion hysteria: conversion hysteria is when you have an unconscious conflict in your mind that creates a physical disturbance. This physical disturbance symbolizes or represents the repressed psychological conflict: patient converts the conflict into a symptom via the voluntary nervous system, then he or she becomes relatively free of the anxiety the conflict would otherwise produce. Behavioural medicine: observable and testable interventions for dealing with health and illness, developing and applying knowledge and techniques to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate. Biomedical model: doctors who only looks at your symptoms, not mental issues and stress related things.
