Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medicine In The Medieval Islamic World, Trepanning, Chlorpromazine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Hans

Document Summary

Mind - cognitions, behaviour, relationships, emotion, coping with stress: emphasizes the mind as being a function of the brain, cognitions and the way people think, the way we cope with stress. Contemporary emphases: emphasis on biomedical approach in the general culture, media- drugs, genetics, medical science, mental illness - term used a lot more now then it used to be, helps to compact the stigma. Humane treatment of mentally ill was slow in coming to canada: many mentally ill housed in prisons until late 1800s. Insane asylums: lehman (1840) advocated flogging of patients, beating them up, other low points, ewen cameron brainwashing experiments for cia, widespread use of lobotomies till early 1970"s. Jf kennedy: sister lobotomized bc his family cant have a crazy person running around, mandatory sterilization of mentally ill, mentally retarded in alberta. Some positives: dr. ruth kajander first in n. a. to use chlorpromazine to treat schizophrenia, london psychiatric hospital.