PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Baruch Spinoza, Psych, Cerebral Cortex
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Historical views causing all these symptoms. world (therapy or talking to people was used to help their symptoms) Mystical: any psychological problem was explained by supernatural or magical forces. Organic: people say their body isn"t working right like one certain organ. Psychological: problems caused by the way people through or how they perceived the is. Homer: person was punished by the gods go to the temple to get healed. Hippocrates: he wrote about depression and psychosis he looked at the brain and said that rest, diet, and relaxation would help. Socrates: looking within yourself, asking questions, reasoning, thinking. People who exhibited disturbed behavior had a conflict between emotions and reasoning (feeling and thinking) Emotions and how they caused problems, analyzing human emotions talked to a lot of people wrote most about anger, fear, and envy. Galen: greek physician-4 body fluids(humors). depending on the balance of those fluids you would display certain symptoms-blood, bile, yellow bile, flem.