PSY 139 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Alienist, Ice Pick, Paresis
12 Jun 2015
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He relied heavily on clinical observations: the four elements of the material world were thought to be earth, air, fire, and water, which had attributes of heat, cold, moistness, and dryness. These elements combined to form the four essential fluids of the body. Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile: from this view came one of the earliest and longest-lasting typologies of human behavior: the sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric, and the melancholic. **developments in thinking: no other mental disorder received as much attention from earlier scholars as depression, or melancholia. Although he elaborated on the hippocratic tradition, he did not contribute much that was new to the treatment or clinical descriptions of mental disorders. He made a number of original contributions concerning the anatomy of the nervous system. He took a scientific approach to the field, dividing the causes of psychological disorders into physical and mental categories: roman medicine reflected the characteristic pragmatism of the roman people.
