HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bethlem Royal Hospital, Avicenna, Moral Treatment
12 Apr 2016
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A brief history of mental illness and psychiatry o. More prone to call it mental illness o. Treatment/concepion of mentally ill does not necessarily it simply story of medical progress o o. Living in a ime of unparalleled, happiness, wealth. Are historical symptoms the same as historical diseases? o o. Lack of universal agreement on what these disorders are, how they should be diagnosed. Bce potenially mania (bipolar), depression and delusions (ixed false beliefs) No clear records, but we have descripions of behavior that sound like these things. People describing someone who engaged in strange behavior, and may match the present day symptom. Hippocrates and galen --> situated madness in brain. Something wrong with the brain therefore the person behaves in a strange way. Revived by islamic scholars (al-razi, ibn sina) treatment wards for mad found across muslin world. Ibn sina: situated in the brain, but also a spiritual component.
