HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Snake Pit, Alcoholism, Sigmund Freud
1 Jun 2016
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1868-1883 episodes of stigmata and ecstasy on fridays and holy days. Stigmata: experiencing the passion of the christ" (no sleep, no food or drink beyond communion) Psychiatrists in paris : formally investigated by the church physicians were welcomed to come observe this phenomenon (an uncomfortable collaboration) Rural versus suburban hysteria stigmata in hospitals versus asylums. Psychiatry: the discipline of studying the mind (degree required), concerned with mental illness. Psychoanalysis: a theory by sigmund freud (no degree required), declared a psychoanalysis after years of study and treatment (many psychiatrists overlap as psychoanalysts), the talking cure (all mental illness can be cured by. Group presentations on films based on madness and psychiatry: Psychiatry in the 1950s ( spellbound and the snake pit ) triumph of psychoanalysis. Alcoholism ( the lost weekend and days of wine and roses ) War and mental illness ( the best years of our lives and coming home )
