HISTORY 70F Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pineal Gland, Paul Broca, Mental Disorder
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Through applying moral management, they would be able to cure psychiatric patients of their illnesses. But by the 20th century, this optimism has started to wane. More alienists are becoming pessimistic about the management of these patients o. They stay in institutions for years and years==doesn"t look like there will be a cure. Different views toward mental illness: wasn"t a problem of rationality. Instead it was a problem of the brain and nerves--a biological, physiological problem. If you want to get to the source, you have to understand the structure of the brain itself: men like sigmund freud. The problem has to deal with repressed memories that are stored in the back of one"s mind. To cure mental processes, bring these repressed memories to one"s consciousness. In his investigations of the mind, encounters a philosophical problem: If the mind and body are fundamentally distinct/separate, how does the mind act upon the body.
