PSY 4130 Lecture 4: 15.2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Early approaches to the treatment of mental illness: psychotherapy: is an attempt to help a person with a mental disturbance. Witch hunts: institutionalized persecution of witches begun with. Phillippe pinel: believed that mental illness was a natural phenomenon that should be studied and treated by the methods of natural science. Benjamin rush: said that people with mental illnesses were often treated like criminals, urged that they go out and experience fresh air and sunlight and be allowed to go for walks within their institution. Emil kraepelin: classified mental illness found that demntia praexcox could be treated; called it schizophrenia. John elliotson: suggested mesmerism being used during surgery. James braid: magnetism hypnotism: prolonged concentration and the physical exhaustion that followed, stressing that the results are explained by the subject"s. Charcot"s explanation of hypnosis and hysteria suggestibility rather than by any power that the magnetizer possessed.