PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Biological Psychiatry, Mental Disorder, Analgesic
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Alternatives covers somatic therapies between circa 1900 and 1950. This period could be called the 2nd biological psychiatry. The 2nd was therapeutic, the first was not. By 1900 disillusionment about treatment, especially of serious mental illness. The therapies here are outgrowth of attempts to restore a therapeutic mission to psychiatry, particularly in the hospital. As used (cid:271)(cid:455) the author of (cid:455)our (cid:271)ook (cid:862)alter(cid:374)ati(cid:448)es(cid:863) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s alter(cid:374)ati(cid:448)e to: custodial institutionalization, psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Drugs used in the 19th century psychiatry: alkaloids: plant derived drugs. Morphine: used as a painkiller today, used to be used as a sedative. Hashish: one of the earliest drug used in the treatment of mental illness. Cocaine: makes the patient feel much better for a short period. Belladonna alkaloids (atropine; scopolamine): very toxic, lethal in overdose. Can have sedative effects, but like hashish, can also produce things like delirium (not good for mentally ill patients: synthetics. Chloral hydrate: has been used for narcoanalysis.
