PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Demonology, Dorothea Dix, Moral Treatment
5 Dec 2012
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Chapter 2: historical and contemporary view of abnormal behav- iour. Demonology, gods, and magic references to abnormal behaviour in early writings show that the chinese, egyptians, He denied that demons intervened in the development of illnesses and insisted that mental disorders had natural causes and appropriate treatments. He believed the brain was the central organ of intellectual activity and that mental dis- orders were due to brain pathology. He emphasized the importance of heredity and predisposition and pointed out that in- juries to the head could cause sensory and motor disorders. He classified mental disorders into 3 categories: mania, melancholia and phrenitis (brain fever) the best known of the earlier paradigms for explaining personality is the doctrine of the. 4 humours, the 4 elements of the material world were earth, air, fire and water which at- tributes of dryness, cold, heat and moistness.
