PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - Chlorpromazine, Lobotomy, New Approach

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27 Apr 2014
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Psychopathology notes 1/14/13: clinical science perspective, middle ages, knowledge controlled by church, psychology was punishment by god for sins. Served purpose of church maintaining control: treatments. Bloodletting: bleed the devil out of the infected. Burned them if nothing else worked: the enlightenment, reason and science became primary source of truth, psychopathology became a reflection of physical abnormality, treatments still similar to middle ages. Cages, sensory deprivation, bloodletting: transition to modern psychology, phillipe pinel. Saw everyone in chains, appalled: ordered the end of it, patients began improving. Some believe jean-baptiste pussin actually initiated all the changes. Chains were replaces with straightjackets: dorothea dix. Got ma to pass laws to improve quality of life. Worcester thought disorders cause by sins: masturbation, drinking, jealousy, pride, gluttony, after all of this effective treatment still didn"t exist, the 1900s, freud. Psychoanalysis: there may be changes that happen through talking, psychopathology as reflection of brain processes. Lobotomy: modern version is used to control epilepsy, issues.

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