PS381 Lecture Notes - Aristotle, Psych, Neurosis
Document Summary
The history of western ideas and practices of mental health. The history of mental health practices in canada. Unfounded claim clinical psych is at the peek of a triangle that starts at greek medicine and roman science problem. Clinical psychology is a 20th century invention, there was no clinical psychology before that time, western civilization, primarily but not exclusively capitalist nations. The metaphor of a tree of knowledge, unbroken line from ancient greeks till now, false. Ancient greeks never had a term for psychology, doesn"t mean they never thought psychological thoughts but they didn"t use the concepts or language that we"re familiar with. Origins of ideas and practices re: mental health. Antigone is accused of being crazy because she dared to defy. People have been talking about crazy behaviour for millennia. Both provided naturalistic explanations on how people behaved based on observation.
