PSY 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demonic Possession, Moral Treatment, Mental Health

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2200
• Professor: Eric B. Fields

Document Summary

Behavior that is atypical, not average, outside the norm. Has a historical connotation that this type of behavior is problematic, causes impairment, and or hinders one"s quality of life. All psychological disorders, then, are abnormal, but this does not mean that they are caused by the individual (ie could be due to circumstances or uncontrollable life events) View that abnormal behavior was due to demonic possession or witchcraft. Stress and melancholy competing view that psychological disorders were due to mental or emotional stress. Treatments for possession exorcism for possession, punishment for sins or to make a person uninhabitable by an evil spirit. Movement and gravitational effects of the moon and stars cause psychological disorders, lunatics . Brain and humors (types of bodily fluids) cause psychological disorders; bloodletting ; melancholor-black bile; hysteria. Syphilis - discovery of this disease and its psychological symptoms. John p. grey - psychiatrist purporting al mental illness was physical. Psychotropic medications first developed in the 1950s.