Psychosurgery

There are many models of abnormalities in psychology, including psychodynamic, behavioral, biological, humanistic-existentialism, and cognitive. Some of these approaches to abnormality seem to almost work off of each other’s beliefs. While each of these models of abnormality are unique in their diagnosis, treatment, and general approach to abnormality, the biological and cognitive approaches stand out to me the most and least fitting explanation to what causes abnormalities and how you should go…

programs for all inmates according to their offense and personal needs” (Platt 615). Instead of receiving educational and job training programs the majority of prisoners were subjected to “treatment” that included “tranquilizers, aversive therapies, psychosurgery, [and] new and dangerous drugs”. Many prisoners despised this so called “rehabilitation” seeing it as “a more profound mode of punishment” by claiming that “it cloaks and mystifies its repressive practices under the mantle of…

Today a mental illness is defined as a chemical imbalance in the brain which causes person to act differently. In the Past psychiatrists did not have medication to treat mental illnesses. Instead they relied on physical methods such as lobotomies, shock therapy, asylums, exorcism, trephining and many more. It is important to become aware of past treatments to better understand the reason for current treatments, it also provides us better information to move forward and create better, more…

physically prove the necessary facts for others to deem reasonable, the scientist begins to create an advantage for their defense. “Instead, dysfunction is much more likely to result from a change-in relationships between several areas, and so psychosurgery is based on a flawed attempt to carry over the same physicalist thinking that has been so powerful in bodily medicine, inappropriately to the medicine of the mind.” (Slater) The world of physicalism that the study of medicine has adapted to,…

The biological model suggests that mental illnesses have a physical cause, for example, an illness which could have been caused by an infection, genes, brain biochemistry or neuroanatomy (Cardwell and Flanagan, 2005). Bacterial and viral infections can damage the brain, resulting in a malfunction. An example of this is general paralysis of the insane, which is a neuropsychiatric disorder caused by a sexually transmitted infection called syphilis. Brown et al., (2000) discovered a link between…

Depression is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders widely found and one of the most to be frequently diagnosed. As depression increases, multiple approaches to treatment have been sought after to effectively treat the disorder. Many of the psychological studies have shown individual and biomedical therapy to be efficient treatments to help depressive people. Some psychological views believe that the disorders are caused by biological factors and some adopt the approach the cause to be…

breeds taking more drugs” (Wurtzel, 1994, loc. 275). Other forms of treatment include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). ECT was the most controversial form of treatment of psychological disorders after psychosurgery (Durand & Barlow, 2016). ECT is considerably changed today and is safe and effective for treatment of extreme depression that does not respond to medication (Durand & Barlow, 2016). TMS uses a localized electromagnetic pulse and some…

technology, but what about during that treatment should the situation change? Is it feasible to have an ongoing dialogue with a patient whose mind is being altered with each passage of treatment? This idea has been studied well in the context of psychosurgery, but it takes on new significance in the context of direct, real-time alteration of the brain for therapeutic purposes or for enhancing cognitive function…

People with disabilities have been discriminated, not only in the 1930s, but throughout the sum of time. Many people of the mentally ill community were taken advantage of and were the “test monkeys” for some inhumane treatments. From before, after and during the 1930s, they were thought of as a burden to society. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, Lennie Small, one of the main characters, suffers from an intellectual disability. Although he is not the brightest, he is big and strong but does…

Article #1 Stuart, Heather. "Media portrayal of mental illness and its treatments: what effect does it have on people with mental illness?" CNS Drugs, vol. 20, no. 2, 2006, p. 99+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/PS/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=kaea136&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA 199865961&it=r&asid=597855df3f8683b82148a3b18850418a. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017. Summary: Dr. Heather Stuart works in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In this…