PSYC 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dementia Praecox, Emil Kraepelin, Hippocratic Oath
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Supernatural battle of good vs. evil : ex: witchcraft, salem witch trials, exorcism, torture, beatings, trepanation (drilling holes through the skull to release evil spirits) Emil kraepelin = father of modern day psychiatry specialized branch just for psyc, came up with diagnosis and classification. Psychological abnormal behavior as a product of mind, personality, behavior, and cognition: consequences asylums (15th century) Establishments for the confinement and care of mentally ill. The psychological tradition emergence of competing psychological models. Theory what went wrong how to fix it = therapy. Theory from earlier = personal experience, later = empirical evidence. Freudian theory of the mind: id = animalistic part of us, ego = part of personality that navigates the world, superego. Defense mechanism = protective against overwhelming anxiety that you aren"t aware of: ex: projection, ego loses the battle with id and superego. Psychosexual stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital stages.
