PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Insulin Shock Therapy, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Animal Magnetism
4 Sep 2018
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Lecture 3: general paresis (syphilis) and the biological link with madness. 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. Electroconvulsive therapy (ect: drug therapies, tranquilizers, anti-pyschotics, benzodiazepines. 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, feel better, catharsis, forget what they said, unconscious, because their defenses were lower. Freud"s theory encompassed: structure of the mind. Id: constantly striving to satisfy basic drives, pleasure principle. Superego: the voice of the conscience, of how we should behave, morality principle. Ego: seeks to gratify the id in realistic ways, reality principle, the mediator: defense mechanisms. Intra-psychic conflict creates problems: used to deal with a conflict but also can create their own problems, repression (ex.
