PSYC 4039 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biological Psychiatry, Habilitation, Neurology
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Eugenics- what is it, who founded the science, how it is or can be practices [different types of techniques] Freudians believed that severe developmental disabilities were caused by a mother who was cold {autism, childhood psychosis] Bettelheim- person most strongly associated with the idea that the mother/parents were to blame [psychoanalytic perspective] Main advocate- rimland negated bettelheim, saying that autism had a biological cause, reviewed literature in mid 1960"s. wrote a book concluded that autism was biological and that early childhood environment, esp mothers relationship, had no effect. Development of university psychiatry -another aspect of university psychiatry- not only allowed for formal education, but also connected mental disorders with research. Griesinger and his main contributions- establishes the first lasting department of psychiatry in a major university [with a clinic where students can see patients] also founded the journal archives of psychiatry and nervous diseases .
