PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Medical Model, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Dsm-5
1 Sep 2016
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Psychological disorders consist of persistent, deviant, distressful and dysfunctional behavior patters. Demonic model view of mental illness during middle ages in which odd behavior, hearing voices or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting to the body. Exorcisms are still preformed in italy, mexico and other countries. One could identify a witch by the devils mark a spot on the skin that"s insensitive to pain. Medical model mental illness due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment. Psychologically troubled people housed in asylums institutions for the mentally ill. Many were overcrowded and understaffed warehouses for mentally disturbed individuals. Medical treatments were barely more scientific than those of the demonic era and several were barbaric. Medication in the early 1950s a dramatic change in the treatment of mental illness arrived on the scene. Imported from france, thorazine offered an effective treatment for symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic disorders.
