PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Therapeutic Community, Cranial Nerves, Mental Health
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Finishes up the mental illness before psychiatry powerpoint and starts the asylum era powerpoint. The believe that mental illness comes from the solid parts of your body, not the liquids. This is the difference between soranus and hippocrates. The body is made up of atoms, there must be pores between the atoms. conditions of these pores, whether they were constricted or relaxed, determined health and disease: wrote on acute and chronic diseases . Characteristics of mania (generic term of psychosis back then, not the mania we know today: impairment of reason, sudden emotional change, delusions. Characteristics of melancholia: downcast , rarely cheerful, mental anguish, longing for death. Aretaeus (1st century ad: eclectic (didn"t belong to a particular school, wrote causes and symptoms of chronic disease . Thought melancholia was the commencement and part of mania : often credited as first person to recognize bipolar disorder. Galen (a. d. 129-216: founder of experimental physiology.
