Psychology 2036A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biomedical Model, Celery, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Health and illness are opposites, when one is present other is absent blood: humours balanced = health, humours unbalanced = disease, 200 years. They would make an opening in the skill so these evil spirits could escape. The basic ideas underlying the biomedical model dominate model of health and illness. Ancient greeks (500-300 bce: humour theory: four body fluids phlelgm, yellow bile, black bile, Humoural imbalances are localized this is why diseases are localized. Priest treated the ill torture to drive out evil influences. Biomedical model down during this time but not forgotten. Roman catholics prohibited dissection because all living things have souls. We can learn about the body by dissection. Biomedical model reborn: soul leaves the body at death, dissection becomes acceptable, mind and body are separate. Celery pathology replaces humoural theory: decease stems from deceased cells. Freud (1856-1939: unconscious psychological conflicts are converted to physical.