PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Biological Psychiatry, Myer, Twin Study
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French contribution: moral- degeneration, charles lasegue- discovers a disorder recognized today, kreplin- what were his contributions. The two main areas of research interests in the first biological psychiatry: heredity and anatomy elements, degeneration- evolution moving backwards. Moral- earliest proponents of the idea of degeneration. Mental illness is the end state of the degenerative process: galton. Amount of variance in a characteristic that is explainable by genetic variation. In america, the leading psychiatrists in the 1900 was myer; book blames myer for putting an end to biological research: two figures who ended biological psychology. Developing the rescur: know elements of the rescur. Remland- put an end to the refrigerator mother theory. Psycho analysis began in europe; came to the us. Psychoanalysis was never the dominant school in psychiatry. Many psychiatriest were still in mental hospitals or going with the biological view. Know the slides were psychoanalysis succeeds and why it fails. Social darwinism- puts his focus on societies: societal level issues.
