PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deinstitutionalisation, Ice Pick, Philippe Pinel
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Abnormal: abnormal psychology/clinical psychology/psychopathology all names for the field of study that is concerned with nature and development of abnormal affect (feelings/ emotions), behaviours (actions), and cognitions (thoughts). characteristics at one time: statistical infrequency (normal distribution curve on. Slide) violation of norms personal suffering disability of disfunction unexpectedness. Mental health vs mental illness (if you have questions just google the video pretty. Abnormality is usually determined by the presences of several. The history of mental illness and mental healthcare. Evil beings (e. g. the devil) can live within us and control out minds and. Very early beliefs: earliest civilizations believed that mental disorders and strange behaviour were caused by the supernatural eclipses, earthquakes, storms, fires, diseases. bodies. Illness is caused by a physical problem with the body/brain (not psychic problems). (brain fever) He also classified mental illness into: mania, melancholia, phrenitis. He had this idea that mental illness is a result of imbalances in the four bodily humours (fluids)
