PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Yellow Emperor, Hypnosis, Trepanning
5 Apr 2016
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The scientiic study of the human mind and its functions, especially those afecting behavior in a given context. Trephining: opening the skull to give the demon an exit point (40,000 years ago-today), many survived. Huang ti ( yellow emperor 27th century bc) Wrote a book claiming that all living organisms have a positive and a negative force. Believed that strange behaviors result from an of- balance of those forces, and dieting would help bring balance back. Believed that everyone has 4 luids in balance in their bodies, but that balance gets disturbed sometimes and afects our behaviors (i. e. depression) Also believed that there is the tendency/want to become healthy, and to do that you need to remove anything from your life that is setting of the balance. Created mental institutions to try and provide people with a stress free life in attempt to heal them. These experiments were successful and he became popular based on them.
