PSY 1102 Lecture : Lecture notes for therapy Lectures from Klempan's course from Winter 2010. Comments not part of class notes (extra information said in class) are in italics.

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Hydrotherapy: patients sprayed by water in order to stimulate them. Wet pack: wrapping patients in wet sheets. Continuous bath: aim was to sedate patients. Hot boxes and lamps: helped to relax patients. Insulin therapy: more dangerous and less effective than electroshock therapy. Metrasol therapy: another form of convulsive therapy. Lobotomy: brain surgery done to cut some nerves. Insulin would slip into coma after low blood sugar, would then convulse as well. Wet shock profuse sweating and drooling. Bad symptom of insulin therapy: dry shock full brain seizure. Glucose given by nose was needed to get them out of coma. Since early 60"s antipsychotic medications became widely available. Readmission rate is about 50% dramatically decreased. Up to about 1960, the inpatient population in mental hospitals were increasing with the population, then they. Most popular ways to help discharged patients community programs (however not always capable of following.