Abnormal Psych. Lecture 2

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In ancient psychology, what was thought to be the issue if one had a mental disorder?

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Spirits possessed the individuals

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Manic may have been thought of as a good or bad spirit?

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Good. High energy, could have been seen as a good quality.

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Depression would have been viewed as a good or bad spirit?

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Bad.

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All in all ancient psychology definitely attributed mental illness to....

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Supernatural Forces.

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Hippocrates

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Proposed biological causes underlying mental illness, proposed the three categories of mania, melancholia, and phrenitis (brain fever/psychosis), suggested that personality was due to the balance of the 4 humors, blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.

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Galen

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Greek Physician, divided the causes of mental illness into physical and mental categories including...injuries to the head, excessive use of alcohol, shock, fear, adolescence, menstrual changes, economic reversals, disappointment in love. HE WAS FIRST TO SUGGEST IT WASNT FROM SUPERNATURAL FORCES.

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The Middle Ages

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Advances made in the humane treatment of people with mental illness. Islamic physician Avicenna supposedly did psycho therapy with young boy and cured him of dellusion.

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Triphining

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Evidence indicates it was used up to 500,000 years ago. It involves chipping away a hole in the skull, presumably to let the evil spirits out. (this shows us they knew source of mental illness was in the brain, maybe also used to release pressure in the brain.)

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What did Hippocrates prescribe for those with mental illness/melancholia?

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A regular tranquil life, sobriety and abstinence from all excesses, vegetable diet, celibacy, exercise short of fatigue, bleeding (if indicated), also would sometimes recommend the removal of patients from their families, bad home environment??

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Exorcisms and Witchcraft

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Used by clergy or church to treat those suffering from mental illness.

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The Humanism Movement

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Took place in age of Enlightenment, The establishment of asylums, it was meant to provide refuge for the mentally ill. Sadly it quickly grew to be overcrowded and understaffed and it became a cruel, more like prison's.

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Pinel

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Was behind Moral Management, he focused on social individual and occupational needs, many facilities showed marked improvement as a result.

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The decline of moral management can be attributed to....

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Larger hospitals and more poorly trained staff, also advances in biomedical science advances lead to idea that all illness could be treated with medicine.

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Malaria was used to kill what?

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Syphilis (worked sometimes)

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The Mental Hygiene Movement

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Dorothea Dix. Focused on physical well-being. Bad conditions in the mental hospitals were declared to be bad for both mental and physical state. Dix was instrumental in this movement.

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Lobotomies

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The early 1920's, they destroyed portions of the frontal lobe in an attempt to relieve symptoms of mental illness. The people became vegetables, it was even controversial at the time.

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The frontal lobe is in charge of...

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Planning, higher level of thought, basically what makes you a person.

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What does NIMH stand for?

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National Institute of Mental Health

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The deinstitutionalization movement was brought on by what act? What did this act do?

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The Community Health Services Act in 1963, and 1964. The act aimed at funding research and providing outpatient psychiatric clinics, this declined the inpatient population from 500,000 in 1950 to 100,000 in 1990

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The original purpose of deinstitutionalization was....

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To treat individuals with mental illnesses more humanely and integrate them and their treatment into the community

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Why did deinstitutionalization not work out?

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Failure to adequately find outpatient and community mental health facilities left many patients abandoned

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Emil Kraepelin

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Is the father of modern classification of mental disorders. Saw course of an illness as predetermined and predictable (the DSM)

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Sigmund Freud

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Developed the theory of psychotherapy, involving the dynamics of unconscious motives.

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The method that Sigmund Freud used on his patients

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Psychoanalysis

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School where Siggy began treating his patients

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Nancy School

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What did Freud's term Catharsis refer to?

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The feeling of relief that his feelings would feel after talking freely about their feelings under hypnosis...This is what lead him to discover the part of the mind he called the unconcious

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Freud's term FREE ASSOCIATION

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Having parents talk freely about their feelings, leading to information about their feelings and motives

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Freud's term DREAM ANALYSIS

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Having patients describe the content of their dreams

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Behaviorists don't believe...

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That the unconscious aspects of psychology are of much importance, they are more into hard evidence easily examined (example: pavlov's dogs)

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Watson and Skinner brought us

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Operant conditioning