PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clinical Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, Neurosis
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The beginning of university psychiatry: established modern psychiatric department in 1865 at charite. Inheritance of madness: 19th century, new ideas, degeneration, evolution, eugenics. Human evolution: evolution- change that represents progress , modern man has declined, evolution is not pushing the development of genetically. Every morning in africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest antelope or it will starve. It doesn"t matter whether you are a lion or an antelope when the sun comes up, you"d better be running. an african proverb. Possible units of selection: gene, individual, species, social groups, application of darwinian principals toward the betterment of society is called social darwinism , this field was developed by british sociologist herbert. Kill the bad individual (nazi lol: the first people that were killed by the nazi"s were the mentally ill.
