PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Clifford Whittingham Beers, Moral Treatment, Demonic Possession

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Trephining: chip away at part of skull to make hole (trephine); allowed evil spirit to excape. Egypt earliest recordings of treatments of diseases and behaviour disorders, brain described for first time and recognized as area for mental function. Chinese, egyptians, hebrews and greeks usually associated abnormal behaviour to a demon or god who had possessed a person religious or mystical significant actions = possession of good spirit these people were respected. Most possessions thought to be work of angry god or spirit; wrath or punishment of god. Believed mental illnesses had natural causes and treatments; not to do with demons or gods. Plato: thought mentally disturbed patients not responsible for their crimes, should be cared for by the community saw psychological phenomena as responses of the whole organism; reflecting its internal state and natural appetites importance of individual differences, sociocultural influences. Didn"t believe disorders could be caused by psychological factors (frustration, conflict)