PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Kidnapping Of Elizabeth Smart, Humorism, Trepanning
24 Sep 2020
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Difficult concept for the field to grasp. Avoid medical students" disease : diagnosing yourself with every condition we discuss! Prehistoric people saw mental illness as caused by evil spirits, demons. Trephining = cut hole in skull to release spirits. Suggests the understood that dysfunctions were physically located in the brain. Very tight connection between what you think causes mental illness and how you decide you"re going to cure it. Greeks and romans treated people based on the four humours theory. The famous greek physician recommended laxatives, bleeding, etc. based on which humour was low or high. In the middle (dark) ages (300-1500 ad) there was a return to belief in spiritual causes. Favored treatment was exorcism torture person to make devil leave body. Bloodletting and trephining also still had big fans! 14th and 15 centuries saw which testing and burning at the stake . Physician and signer of the declaration of independence.
