PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis, Food Politics, Binge Drinking
8 Apr 2018
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In the real world because we are interacting with patients etc: reasons for having or not having it, two dominant models that are implicit in this discipline and the practice is the main concept of this lecture. Hippocrates: medical profession, help with illness differently. Galen: differentiating parts of the diseases and the effects it had on the body, looking towards specific problems on parts of the body. Historical perspective christendom: shift toward more supernatural thinking, see illness being largely viewed as spirits, demons, the body is seen as secrete (when you are looking at people and animals as possessing souls etc) The mind-body problem: dualism says there are two different substances: body and mind, monism says there is only one substance, materialism says there is only the body. Idealism there is one substance but that one substance is the mind. Criticism of the biopsychosocial model: reaction against, psychoanalysis, behaviourism. Health psychology: a large concern in the social sciences.
