PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Insulin Shock Therapy, Eliot Spitzer, Electroconvulsive Therapy
4 Sep 2018
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Hippocrates (450 bc): one of the first to consider that psychopathology could be a disease. Humoral theory - imbalance in 4 humors, e. g. too much black bile causes depression (melancholia) Foreshadowed modern views linking abnormality with brain chemical imbalances. General paresis (syphilis) and the biological link with madness. Pasteur discovered the cause - a bacterial microorganism. Led to penicillin as a successful treatment (1870) Bolstered the view that mental illness = physical illness and should be treated as such. Dominant current psychiatric view - mental illness = physical illness. Believed that mentally ill should be treated humanely. Crowding of mental hospitals eliminated individual attention. Mental illness as brain pathology, people assumed it was incurable. Concluded that it was the result of suggestion (placebo effect) Freud teamed up with breuer; interest in hypnosis. Freud - played a huge role in shaping theories of psychopathology. Based on observations that following hypnosis, patients would.
