PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antidepressant, Paresis, Meprobamate
21 Mar 2018
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Three characteristics of abnormal behavior are: causes impairment, distress, and atypical/deviant. Domains we consider in the assessment of mental illness are: motivational, social, cognitive, emotional. According to your textbook, freud"s hypothesis regarding the origins of mental illness is best described as: the belief that the forces dictating normal and abnormal behavior are largely unconscious. According to your book (chapter 2), which of the following neurotransmitters has been implicated in psychological disorder: serotonin, gaba, dopamine. A brief history of madness and its remedy. Historical concepts of psychopathology: spiritual/supernatural, biological, psychological. May have been used to treat epilepsy, mental illness. Used until late renaissance to release evil spirits . Asylums developed for poor, chronically sick and mentally ill. Following philippe pinel (1745-1826), hospitals began to emphasize moral treatment . New emphasis was placed on sleep, relaxation and peaceful surroundings to treat mental illness. Led to rise of bucolic campus-like mental hospitals in europe and us (e. g. , mclean hospital, est.
