A PSY 203 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Emil Kraepelin, Social Anxiety Disorder

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1. 1700s: bleeding and purging, reintroducing the scientific method, occupational therapy. 6. anton mesmer: psychoanalytic theory, believed that magnetic fluid filled the body and psychological issues were caused by imbalances. 9. bipolar i: cycles of mania and major depression. 15. dorthea dix: reform for the mentally ill and asylums. 20. generalized anxiety disorder: an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety that is not associated with a particular object, situation, or event, but seems to be a constant feature of a person"s day-to-day existence. 22. james braid: claimed that mesmer"s patients were in a trance, coined the word hypnotism. 23. panic disorder: recurrent, unexpected panic attacks (fear of recurrent attacks for 1 month or more) 24. phrenology: the practice of reading the bumps on one"s skull. 26. renaissance and humanitarian age: return of science, "bodily magnetism," astral influences (moon, luna, "lunatic"), the notion that mental illness is a disease. 27. social anxiety disorder: social phobia duration of 6 months or more.