PSYC 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infant Mortality, Heroic Medicine, Sigmund Freud
4 May 2017
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Dualism is where the mind and body are looked at as two different things. Monism is when you believe that your mind and body are connected. Physical illness where due to natural causes. During this time the catholic church became very powerful and europe went through a dark period where they lost all of their greek ancestor knowledge stuff. Mind and body are two separate systems. Attempts to break away from superstitions of past centuries. Physicians heal the body, physical evidence is the sole basis of diagnosis. Dominant model for the past 300 years. All illness can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic processes. Psychological / social process: independent of disease. Dualistic: if you think of the body as just a machine you will not be concerned if the patient is depressed after getting a mastectomy. You will miss important parts in the patient"s life that will affect the treatment. Conversion hysteria: mind and body are linked.
