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the 6 criteria to define abnormal behavior
1. unusualness
2. Social deviance
3. Faulty perceptions
4. significant person distress
5. Maladaptive or self defeating behavior
6. Dangerousness
Abnormal def
a psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functing that is not typical nor culturally expected
Approprate labels for abnormal
'psychology disorder"
first person language
how long have major psychological diorders existed
in all cultures and across all time periods
what varies in the past of abnormal behavior
varies across cultures and time periods
4 influential historic approaches
1) supernatural model
2) early medical models
3) institutionalize/asylums
4)the reform movement
Supernatural tradition
Deviant Behavior =

battle of "good" vs. "Evil"
supernatual tradion saw casues of mental behavior as
demonic processes
whitchcraft
sorery
movenemnt of the moon and stars
lunacy
Supernatural treatments
excorism
torture
beatings
crude surgeries ( Trephenation)
THE SUPERNATURAL TRADITION
Middle Ages
(476~1540 AD)

posession = cause of illness
treatmenet: prayer, exorcism, starvation
THE SUPERNATURAL TRADITION

Malleus Maleficarum
Mallus Maleficarum ->
100, 000 + accused and killed
THE SUPERNATURAL TRADITION

Witchcraft
late 15-17th centruy

witches 'voluntarily' work w/devil

primary women : poor and unmaried or disobedient

attempt at diagnosis -> death either way

malleus Maleficarum
THE EARLY MEDICAL MODELS
Hippocrates

Galen extendend work

the Galenic -Hippocratic tradition
Hippocrates
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AS A PHYSICAL DISEASE

break from demonology

Theorizes that mental illness is the result of 4 Humors
(vital fluids = phlemg, black and yellow bile, blood)
Galen Extended Hippocrates' work
discovered arteries carry blood (NOT AIR) which helped solidify the biological model

Rudimentary treatments
the Galen-Hippocratic Tradition
linked abnormlaity with brain chemical imbalances

forshadowed modern views
The Reform Movement
late 18th century early 19th century

background; 1450-1550 horrible condivtions => reformement movement

Rise of Moral Reform Therapy
Pinel and Pussin
Rise of moral reform theraly

NOT moral in the sense of the word

normalized treatemtnes

human treatments -> decreased symptoms
Key ppl in reform movement
Pinel and Pussin

Benjamin Rush

dorothea Dix
Benjamin Rush
lead refrms in the US
Dorothea Dix
Led mental hygiene movement
Reasons for decline of mental Therapy in the 1880's
return to belief that MI are NOT currable
=>
lifelong institionalized and little/poor care
5 influenctiual contemprary approaches
1. the biological perspective
2. the Community mental healh movement
3. the psychological perspective
4. the sociocultural perspective
5. the biopsychosicoal perspective
Impact of the biological tradition
Mental Illness ~ Physical illness

the 1930s biological treatments becmae standard
(insulin, shock therapy, ECT, brain surgery)

the 1950's
->medications were increasingly available
(anti-psychotics and major tranqs)
=>deinstititionalization movement
Community mental Health movement
based on the premise that communites can better meet the needs ofits members
Social influences of CMHM
1963 -congress est. nationwide community mental health centers

anti-psycotic drugs widey available
CMHM => Deinstitutonaliztion
pop institituonalied

1955 > 550,000
1985 < 130, 000
the Psychological perspective
Psychoanalyliic Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Emergered out of Moral Therapy and Charcot's use of hypnosis to treat hysteria

freud's theory that intrapsychic forces in the subconscious => MI

1st major psychological theory of abnormal behavior:

conflict within-.> blocked emotions -> -> physical manisfestations of phsycological distresss

treatments: ->discharge of blocked emotions (Catharsis) -> restored physical functioning

====> modern psychodynamic theory
what lead to modern psychodynamic theory?
Psychological perspectiive
(Psychoanalytic ->)

modern psychodynamic theory
catharsis
?
The Sociocultureal Persepctive
Society fials a person => abnormal behvaior

considers society's i'lls as the CAUSE of MI

mental illness is a myth
(insteed 'probem living is the illness"

labels = BAD => stigmas

lead by thomas Szasz
thomas Szasz
?
The biopsychosocial Perspective
Imposes an Interactionist model

-implies that abnormal behavior is too complicated for a single model

-consider
BIOLOGICAL + PSYCHOLOGICAL + SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS

CURRENT TTREND IN FIELD (behvairoal genetics)
Current trend in field
behavior gentics
Galen
?
jean- martin charcot
?
joseph breuer
?
general paresis
destrutive brain disease caused by syphalis
maleficarum
?
neo -feudians
?
trephination
?
dimentia praecox
?
first -person langauge
?
humors
?
define de-institutoinaliztion
?
effects of de-institutionalizatouin
?