PS280 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Depressive Personality Disorder
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Psychopathology: concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behavior, thoughts/ cognition, feelings/emotions. Abnormal: defined by several characteristics- statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, dysfunction or disability, unexpectedness. Demonology: evil being the cause of mental illness. Trepanning: surgery used in neolithic and stone age, to relieve headaches and seizures by putting a hole in the skull. Dark ages: demonology returns with the church, monks cure the ill. persecution of witches is the solution to female abnormality. Institutions are built for leprosy and once leprosy goes away these become homes for the mentally ill (asylums). These were mostly work houses and in certain cases (bedlam) used for entertainment of the rich. Drugs used as first therapy (alcohol, cannabis, opium and chloral hydrate) Philippe pinel: advocates for better treatment of mentally ill. Dorthea dix (us and canada): advocates for humane treatment, hospitals are built but not enough funding for support workers and soon run by doctors more interested in experimenting.
