PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Emil Kraepelin, Moral Treatment, Sigmund Freud

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 245
• Professor: Marselle

Document Summary

Greater understanding and development of new biological treatments in the 1930s. Insulin shock therapy procedure in which copious amounts of insulin were. Induced them into a coma but some came out with recovered mental injected in patients believed to have psychosis health depression treatment. Benjamin franklin introduced the idea of shock therapy to one"s head to aid with. Treatment stopped because it was believed that mental disorders were incurable. Emil kraepelin one of the founding fathers of modern psychiatry. By the end of the 1800s, a scientific approach to psychological disorders and their classification had begun with the search for biological causes. Psychosocial treatment focuses not only on psychological factors that impact one"s mental health but also on social and cultural ones. Moral therapy a strong psychosocial approach to mental disorders that included treating institutionalized patients as normally as possible in a setting that encouraged and reinforced normal social interaction.