In reading chapter one of the textbook, I found that the history of how abnormal behavior was treated to be quite interesting. While I knew that the farther back you go in history the more connected to religion the response and treatment of persons perceived as being abnormal was, the small details have always been missing. For example, the treatment for hallucinations and melancholia (the term previously use to describe depression), was trephination. When compared to today, where we have a further understanding of the way the chemicals in our brain can cause different reactions (e.g. low serotonin levels cause depression) it was thought that the cause was spirits. The trephination treatment was literally the process of removing a portion of
