Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Antibiotics, Behaviorism, Sertraline

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

Document Summary

Plato dreams, talk therapy : importance of dreams to understand the unconscious mind, galen(cid:224) combined the biological and the psychological approaches, agreed with the four fluids theory, also focused on stress in causing mental problems, avicenna 1000 ad, muslim physician, talked about treating people with mental problems, anton mesmer(cid:224) discovered hypnosis. Freud: originally, very biological approach to mental illness, worked with charcot and began to think more psychologically, developed psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive behaviour therapy (cbt, further development of behaviourism bringing in cognition, brings together some of the ideas that freud emphasized as well as behaviourism. Contemporary emphases: emphasis on biomedical approach in the general culture, media, drugs, genetics, medical science, neuroscience, mental illness , assumption is that mental health problems are a result of the brain, biopsychosocial model in psychology, bringing together the biological (brain), psychological (mind) and the social, mental health problems have multiple causes.