PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Erasmus Darwin, Genital Modification And Mutilation, Blood Transfusion
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Proto-psychology theory four: medical view of psychopathology, brain pathology causes maladaptive humours behaviours. Bethlem hospital: big movement to house the mentally ill, bedlam. 500 years of madness: rotational therapy: erasmus darwin, spinning someone 100 times/minute to sweat out. Dr. benjamin rush: founding father of the us and american psychiatry (1770s, tranquilizer chair, centrifugal chair, treatment with mercury, blood letting. Treatment was rooted in physiological approach: did not believe in. History of psychopathology: holes drilled through the skull to relieve demons from the mind, hippocrates (460bc to 370bc) Couple years later in france demononoly was opposed: restraints, punishments, coercion, mental illness was a, caused by. The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm: first edition 1952, currently in the 5th edition, symptom based diagnosis, predict course, suggest treatment, prompt research, disorders in the dsm-5. Psychological disorders: syndrome, collection of symptoms, not all are equal, present in varying combinations, if you treated with medication.
