PSY 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Germ Theory Of Disease, Microorganism, Animal Magnetism
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Psychological dysfunction: for example, stage fright, exists on a spectrum. Behaviors are atypical or not culturally expected: for example, the cultural significance of hearing voices, dsm definition. As a behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction that are unexpected in their cultural contest, with present distress, impairment of function etc: view examples and try to come up with questions, history, the supernatural tradition. Abnormal behavior was associated with demon possession or spirits: treated with exorcisms, torture, or crude surgeries. If one of these portions were out of whack this is what caused the abnormality. 1800"s: syphilis left untreated can cause general paresis and over time it would affect the brain, louis pasteur came up with the germ theory: that microorganism can cause issues/disease. It then became the etiology of psychosis symptoms. Treatment: etiology generally guides treatment, for example, Asylum became the prevalent form of treatment because of increased immigration they were not able to house everyone for moral therapy.
