PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bipolar Disorder, Dementia Praecox, Animal Magnetism
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Treatment=exorcism, trepanning (hole in the scull: somatogenesis - hippocrates (5th century bc) Something is wrong with body, causing disturbance in thought & behaviour: need psychicians > excorsisms, dark ages and demonology. Mentally ill are witches: develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of asylu(cid:373)s, 15th-16th centuries, london: bethlehem. Bedlam: us: benjamin rush (1745-1813, thought mental illness was due to an excess of blood in the brain, moral treatment, treating people as if they are sick not as caged animals, philippe pinel (1745-1826) dorothy dix (1802-1877) The beginning of contemporary thought: an early system of classification, emil kraepelin (1856-1926, syndrome, dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic depressive psychosis, general paresis and syphilis, mental and physical deterioration mental -delusions and physical- paralysis. If patient talked about their problems helped them to feel better: psychological factors are important and play a role.
