CHEM 182 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amanda Feilding, Luigi Galvani, Static Electricity
12 Mar 2014
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Lecture 8: mental illness (1:53min of fall 2013 heart/mental illness lecture) Mental illness will affect 1 in 4 ie 25% people at some point in their life (ie not rare). Very stigmatized: schizophrenia most severe (not split personality)- dissociation from reality, hallucination (auditory and visual) Used to be thought that they were possessed by demons; middle ages-foul stones in their heads; ancient romans thought came from full moon (word lunatic) ; video of herself drilling hole: peter halvorson: hole in the head advocate: drilled small holes in his head and said her was able to think better. Middle ages, believed that if mentally ill, you were possessed by witches or demons, and had to release them by heat. They would literally try to burn the spirit out of the body. If that didn"t work, spirits had to be destroyed even if that meant destroying the body too. Many people accused of being witches were actually mentally ill (probably schitzophrenic).
