PSYCH 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Systematic Desensitization, Weight Loss, Specific Phobia
Treatment of Mental Disorders - Lecture 1
Treatments Past & Present
Early Treatment of Mental Disorders
●Mental disorders caused by evil spirits
○Large holes cut into the person’s skull to let the
evil spirits escape
○Potions that induced vomiting
■These treatments are not helpful
○16th century, special “hospitals” for the insane;
rather a way to imprison a person rather than treat
them as a way to keep them from hurting themselves or
others. Chaining to bed, keeping them in dark rooms…
Again, very ineffective.
○Early-mid 1900s:
■Crude, ineffective, cruel
■Hydrotherapy; sprayed by water in order to
stimulate them
■Wet pack; wrap client in wet sheets
■Continuous bath; 90 degrees F to sedate clients
■Box
■Insulin therapy; dangerous and less effective
that ECT. USed mostly for schizo. Give them
insulin for blood sugar to drop, let them slip
into a coma, experience convulsions.
■Dry Shock involved a full-brain seizure
●Glucose had t be given to get them out of
comas
■Metrazol therapy was another form of convulsive
therapy; produced a Grand Mal type of seizure
■Lobotomy; brain operation severing frontal lobe
and lower centers of the brain
○Focus on physical aspects
Current Treatments for Mental Disorders
●Treatment Providers
○individuals licensed to provide psychological
treatments
Document Summary
Large holes cut into the person"s skull to let the evil spirits escape. 16th century, special hospitals for the insane; rather a way to imprison a person rather than treat them as a way to keep them from hurting themselves or others. Chaining to bed, keeping them in dark rooms . Hydrotherapy; sprayed by water in order to stimulate them. Wet pack; wrap client in wet sheets. Continuous bath; 90 degrees f to sedate clients. Insulin therapy; dangerous and less effective that ect. Give them insulin for blood sugar to drop, let them slip into a coma, experience convulsions. Glucose had t be given to get them out of. Metrazol therapy was another form of convulsive therapy; produced a grand mal type of seizure. Lobotomy; brain operation severing frontal lobe and lower centers of the brain comas. People who are not licensed but still give treatments can be pastoral counselors, aids in treatment centers they are called.
