PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mental Disorder, Frontal Lobe, Thomas Szasz
2 Mar 2017
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One in 5 us youth 13-18 years old will have experienced mental health with severe impairment. More us men back from iraq war have mental disorder (ptsd) 20% - active duty: around 50% reserves were referred to mental health treatment at one of the two time points. Screening immediately after deployment, and 6 months after. Initial screenings: 4. 4% needed treatment: six months later: 117% Thought that mental illness came from demons. Trephining release spirits: evidence from 6500 bc. The four humors: choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholy. Back to demons as the cause of mental illnesses. Exorcism torture: sometimes the cure killed. Benjamin rush (1745-1813) was a physician who was one of the first to say that it was kind of inhumane: treat the mentally ill with respect and care. Till : spinning depressed patients, restraining manic ones, bleeding, and terrifying patients, there was a perceived method behind the madness.
