PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Animal Magnetism, Hypnosis, Antidepressant
8 Mar 2016
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The 4 d"s of abnormal psychology are: deviant, distress, dysfunction and danger. Norms are unstated societal standards/expectations for proper conduct. Treatment has 3 components: patient, therapist, and sessions. Trephination: holes bored into brain to relieve demons, ancient therapy Hippocrates: (the father of medicine) taught that illnesses were rooted in natural causes. Hippocrates called the illnesses humors, which consisted of yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm. Renaissance: johann weyer believed that the mind could be sick just as the body could. He is the first physician to specialize in mental illness and understood to be the founder of psychopathology. 19th century: philippe pinel and william tuke were main contributors to the moral treatment movement. Pinel believed people should be treated with kindness. Tuke used prayers, talk and manual labour to rehabilitate mentally ill. Dorothea dix fought for the rights of the mentally ill politically, which resulted in the development of state hospitals.
