PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deinstitutionalisation, Frontal Lobe, Thalamus
5 Apr 2016
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Terms to be aware of: paient: associated with biomedical model, hospital seing, client: associated with socio-dynamic model, social seing. Therapist: do not need to be ceriied to be called a therapist. Theoreical outlook is a major factor in treatment approach: neuropsychological/medical, psychodynamic, behavioural/cogniive, humanist. Schizophrenia is a poor ego defense mechanism (oping out of the tension, removing themselves from life) Treatment would involve talking therapy, regressing unil the basic conlicts are discovered, free associaion, then they need to deal with the conlicts. Problems with this approach: no more efecive than no treatment" or. Focus on the malfuncioning of the brain (popular because there is fairly good evidence that there is a biological cause) Intervene with neurological messages (associated with problem behaviours, focus on the disrupion) 3 died, 1 cured, 2 quieter": 1930"s moniz developed the prefrontal leucotomy (nobel prize 1949) Severed the connecion between the prefrontal cortex and the rest of the brain: the icepick" method.
