PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medicine Man, Abraham Maslow, Humanistic Psychology
19 Oct 2016
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No distinction between medicine, magic, and religion. Treated mental problems by driving out demons/evil spirits. Drilling a small hole in the person"s skull to release spirits. Moved away from supernatural and toward natural and physiological explanations of. Made connections between bodily organs and emotions. Forces are interconnected-idea that body can be out of balance (liver connected anger, Used narcotics to treat pain (opium to be precise) People were thought to be possessed by demons, spirits, and the devil - not physical disorders. Around the 13th century started out as place for poor and sick, by the 15th century a mental institution. Cotton: director of the new jersey state lunatic asylum in trenton from 1907 to. Removed over 11,000 teeth (also spleens, stomachs, and colons) Symptoms: g. stanley hall, founded first american psychology lab at johns hopkins, first american with phd in psychology, john locke, advocated blank state" at birth, william wundt, established a lab in germany in 1879.
