PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Treatment, Psy, Animal Magnetism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

If something was wrong in the environment a person"s impulses and emotions would overcome reason. Best treatment was to reeducate the individual through traditional discussion so that the power of reason would predominate. A precursor to modern psychosocial approaches focus on psychological, social and cultural factors. Created changes to the way the hospitals worked. Rise of moral therapy in europe and north america that made institutions habitable and even therapeutic. The development of asylums through the moral therapy movement did bring some relief to many people with mental illnesses. Treatment o humane treatment for mentally ill o individualized attention o normal social interactions and interpersonal relationships o emotional or psychological rather than a code of conduct. Asylum reform and the decline of moral therapy. It was widely recognized that moral therapy worked best when the number of patients in an institution was 200 or fewer need a lot of individual attention.