PSY E245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Philippe Pinel, Cesare Lombroso, Emil Kraepelin
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Added windows, advocated for treatment, encouraged exercise. Instructed staff to treat patients with kindness. Developed a systematic approach to classification, management, and treatment of disorders. Remembered as one of the leaders of the humanitarian reforms that swept through. Remarkable increase in mental patients lead to overcrowding of institutions and made it impossible to treat every patient as pinel had requested. Brought to north america by benjamin rush. Characterized by a desire to protect and to provide humane treatment for the mentally ill. Deviations from normal functioning are transmitted by hereditary processes and these deviations progressively degenerate over generations. Size/shape of skull indicated if you would be a criminal. Published clinical psychiatry" in 1883 which attempted to classify mental illness. Syndromes groups of symptoms tend to occur together. Suggested that different disorders have different causes. Thought if they had syphilis as kids is could lead to gpi. Idea that psychopathology is caused by biological factors.
