PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ice Pick, Mania, Psych
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Hospitals= custodians of people who could not be cured: (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:882)(cid:882)/(cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s: patients wandered streets, jailed. Patients (cid:498)chose to be irrational(cid:499: mid (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s (cid:498)moral management(cid:499) and (cid:498)custodial care(cid:499) conclusions of someone"s personality and mental health based cut (cid:523)mid (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s(cid:524) Defective nerves would reform as normal nerves after being. Brain shape= personality (specific parts of your personality was in different parts of your brain)- they said you could make on the shape of the brain: lobotomies, phrenology. The physicians would use a needle/ ice pick, put it inside your skull or brain and scrape it a few times before pulling it out. After the procedure people were really calm and people at first thought it was a cure for hyperactive/ mental ill patients but then they found out it was damaging their brain. What is required for patients to change? (2 explanations: a patient needs to gain an understanding as to why they have this problem.
