PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Proband, Oral Stage, Reductionism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Dagmar Bernstein

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Also known as the medical model or disease model. Assumption psychological disorders have a physical etiology (=cause) Very old idea e. g. , greeks recognized a disorder called hysteria, a psychological problem primarily in women. Wandering uterus looking for warmth and moisture in various parts of the body. Treated by applying burning dung to make it an unpleasant place for the uterus. First, observe large #"s of patients exhibiting different symptoms (symptoms = abcdefghijklmno: observation indicates that some symptoms tend to be correlated: abcd efg hijkl mno, these clusters of symptoms are called syndromes. Second, look for the etiology of each syndrome. Third, find treatment for each etiology some paradigms have adopted this approach (i. e. , md"s) Some admitted it, some didn"t, open lesion on genitals. You can"t get syphilis more than once so in 1897, neurologist von krafft-ebing inoculated 9 general paresis patients with syphilis. This established that general paresis was due to syphilis: treatment.