PSYC 100 Lecture 23: psych week 23

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Early treatment methods: peoplewithseverementalhealthdisorders were misunderstood and treated inhumanly. Goal was to release the devil/evil spirit. Removed restraint, allowed them to walk around the ground: dorothea dix, american nurse. Isolation------------------------- evaluation & stabilization: closingmentalhospitals, promotingre-integrationintocommunity protectingfromharm, residentialtreatmentcenters. Deinstitutionalization: in the 1950s, the deinstitutionalization movement began in the united. Purpose of psychological treatment: reduce or remove clinically significant symptoms, measure the client"s symptoms before and after treatment in a reliable and verifiable manner. Psychoanalytic: our behaviour ultimately can be ex- plained in terms of unconscious forces or desires, psychological problems are due to inadequately resolved issues resulting from id, ego, & superego roles. Thanatos: according to sigmund freud, humans have a life instinct which he named. eros and a death drive thanatos : allegedly compels humans to engage in risky and self-destructive acts that could lead to their own death. Behaviours such as thrill seeking and aggression are viewed as actions which stem from this thanatos instinct.