PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psych, Psychoanalysis, Penicillin
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General paresis (syphilis) and the biological link with madness. Pasteur discovered the cause: a bacteria microorganism. Psychiatrist who believed mental illness had physical roots. Led to reforms of hospitals to give psychiatric patients better care. Idea that stimulating or suppressing a part of the brain that could treat the. Psychotropic medications because increasingly available in the 1950s. Sometimes without knowing what part of the brain was being extracts. Was supposed to be calming for those experiencing psychotic behaviors. Overall, mental illness understood to have physical roots. Mental illness often seen as untreatable condition. People admitted were treated as prisoners and lab rats. Became popular in the first half of the 19th century. Moral: referring to psychological and emotional factors. Main idea: treat patients as normally as possible in a normal environment. Believed that patients should not be restrained. Worked in france in la bictre and salpetrier. Led reforms of mental hospitals in us.
