PSY 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biological Psychiatry, Moral Insanity, Moral Treatment
27 Oct 2016
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Psychology is the study of all mental functions ( normal, abnormal, depth, spectrum, ) Psychiatry is the mental illness+treatment ( diseases) small part of psychology. Biology and biological psychiatry is a new discipline. History of biological psychiatry. ( what we used to think causes mental illness ) 1. 3-10,000 bce- primitive man- a forces outside themselves. Confined to thinking about themselves and their group. When a group member would show any unusual acts they would do : Trepanation which is when they took a not very sharp object and put a hole in the skull. Hippocrates had an idea that there were 4 humors ( liquids ) in the body that had to be in balance. If you had too much of one you would have certain characteristics. Plato ( greek ) - believed that people who were outside typical behavior had special abilities. Hearing voices meant they can write music or oracle of delphi who could predict the future.
