PSY240H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 For those of you who missed class, these notes have all the lecture slides and my own notes taken integrated together in one neat word document. Great for last minute studying!
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Ancient treatment: stone age: trephining causing the behavioural. *edwin smith papyrus: 16th century b. c. e, treatment of diseases & behavioural disorders. Surgical operation particular to the brain: brain is described. *ebers papyrus dysfunction: internal medicine, incantations, chipping away one area of skull until a hole was made to release spirits inside. Writings about the brain associating w/ some form of mental. Potions help to alleviate any kind of abnormal behaviour. Plato (429 - 347 b. c. e. : viewed psychological phenomena as responses to the whole organism, emphasized individual differences & sociocultural influences. If you could get the person to think the right way, help to elimintate the mental disorder/symptoms: view of consciousness = you could think your way to better health (cognitive psych) Head injuries, alcohol, fear, adolescence, menstrual changes etc. The middle ages: the first mental hospital (792 c. e. ) Tarantella : iycanthropy: condition which a group thought they were possessed by spirits of wolves.
