FASH 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Treatment Of Mental Disorders, Moral Treatment, The Interpretation Of Dreams

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Fashion (FASH)
• Course: FASH 162
• Professor: Sifet

Document Summary

The development of psychoanalysis as a cure of mental disorders by freud in vienna has (until today) a big impact on psychology. People with mental difficulties have mostly been treated with a combination of compassion and contempt (sometimes hostility), given that they were weak and non-productive. The compassion came from the parents and other members of the (extended) family; the contempt from society outside the family. As long as the symptoms were not too bad or dangerous, these people stayed at home and died young, as did the majority of humans in those days. Informal support meant that the care depended on the persons providing it. In some families it was good; in others it was unacceptable. Asylum = name given to the institutions for the insane established from the sixteenth century on; first modelled after prisons, later after hospitals for chronic patients.