PSYC 300 Lecture 5: Mental Disorders and Therapies
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Mental illness and treatment: another root of modern psychology, psychodynamic school, humanistic psychology, abnormal psychology, clinical psychology, and that of a neighbor: psychiatry. Modern terms: psychological disorders, psychopathology, neurosis and psychosis, problems in living. Categorical vs. dimensional approaches (it gets complicated fast!) Integrated, holistic, biopsychosocial: a combination of all these, modern society"s effort to promote biopsychosocial perspective, ancient greece biopsychosocial and holistic. Bleeding people may help get the extra humours out (by bleeding) If you had a good time (and were healed) at the asklepeion you would write an inscription about what happened to you in the meantime: magical healing (cf. Incubation chambers, goddess of hathor (goddess of love and sex: depiction of spirit, papyri graecae magicae. Some rejected the cross (because it was something to kill. Witches or secret agents of satan were executed. Witches and mental illness: deviance targeted: the mentally ill as witches. Rise of the reformers against the madhouses wanted to try treating the.
