PSYC 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chlorpromazine, Killing Of Tim Mclean, Disorganized Schizophrenia
10 Apr 2016
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Clinical psychology: the area of psychology devoted to understanding and treating mental disorder. In the middle ages, mental disorder was thought to arise from possession by evil spirits. This image depicts trepanning, which a hole is drilled into a person"s skull to release evil spirits. A common treatment for mental disorder was to perform exorcisms which amounted to ritualized torture. Later, mental disorder became views as having a biological cause, like physical illness. In the 1800"s this led to the establishment of large psychiatric hospitals, or asylums such as london"s bethelehem hospital. Psychiatric asylum in essondale, british columbia, which has been closed and abandoned, since 2002. Despite this change, treatments of mental disorder remained cruel and infective. Brushing for beating the disorder out of people. Water therapy to spray the disorder out. Rotational therapy to shock and vomit the disorder out. Reformers like pinel and dix, shamed society into ensuring that residents in mental institutions were treated humanely and compassionately.
