PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Participant Observation, State Agency For National Security, Outline Of Health Sciences
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Religion vs medical (not demons, punishment, torture, rationality, animalistic, since more like animals than human, cure it like an animal) approach. Do(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e that po(cid:449)e(cid:396) to (cid:396)eligio(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)o(cid:396)e. A (short) history of mental illness: ancient times: a theological/demonological approach, classical greece: a medical model (hippocrates bodily humours, medieval europe: the theological model returns, the age of enlightenment: the (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al (cid:373)odel a(cid:374)d (cid:862)the g(cid:396)eat (cid:272)o(cid:374)fi(cid:374)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Late 19th century: the psychological model: freud (hysteria) Hysteria: mostly women (middle upper classes, grave psyc problem, anxiety attacks, insomnia, physical symptoms (cramps), anxiety, depression, originate, from female dysfunction, female problem with physical cause, the result is psyc. Freud and the structural model of personality. Late 50s: drugs, grows fast in the 50s, main physical treatment today, mainly to treat psychiatric disorders at the beginning (schizophrenia) more and more after time (anxiety, depression) Late 20th century: the sociological model: criticize psychological and medical approach. Beyond theory how do we actually treat the mentally ill ? (confinement)
