PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Cytopathology, Giovanni Battista Morgagni
8 May 2017
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Psyc 2301 chapter 1: what is health psychology. *all content belongs to tarry ahuja & where cited in lecture slides* Understanding psychological influences on: how ppl stay health, why ppl get ill, how they respond to illness. World health organization (who) defines health as: health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (1948-present) Health psychologist focuses on: health promotion & maintenance, prevention & treatment of illness, etiology & correlates of health, illness, & dysfunction, improving health care system, & policy. Renaissance: improvements in biotechnology, microscopy (leeuwenheok), autopsy (morgagni, led to rejection of humoral theory, supported by cellular pathology, initiated mind-body dualism movement (descartes, physicians associated w/ body, philosophers associated w/ mind. Freud introduces conversion hysteria: mind causes deficit in body, pt converts conflict into symptom, address psychological issue. 1973, biofeedback: behavioural medicine: defines behavioural medicine as:
