PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Behavior, Sigmund Freud, Hypercholesterolemia
Document Summary
Promotion and maintenance of health and well-being. Exercise healthy activity, avoiding fast food and harmful food items. Focuses on health and illness and related dysfunctions. Clinical health psyc: management of different symptoms. E. g managing symptoms of depression using different techniques. Occupational health psyc: focuses on health issues in the work place. (stress, depression), (e. g first responders experience stress during line of duty, people in business experience stress, people in military) Community health psyc: focuses on health issues experienced by many communities. (e. g due to lack of stable and better life style, poverty and inaccessibility to health services) He said that there is no connection between body and mind. Johann christian agust (1772-1843): he coined the term psychosomatic . Benjamin rush (1746-1813): father of modern psychiatry. (mind affects the body physiology) Sigmund freud: psychoanalysis. (your mind can affect your physical and mental health), (he drew an explanation of subconscious drives). See health psyc section of cpa. (link provided)
