PSYC 4039 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alienist, Moral Treatment, Mania
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Mania includes: extreme excitement, uncontrolled rage, folly . not melancholia. Two types of mental disorders presented in early years: mania and melancholia. Father of modern medicine because of explanation of illness based on natural processes not spiritualism. His influence causes hippocratic medicine to be practiced for 1500 years. Atomism atoms expansion and contraction is responsible for what happens in the body. On acute and chronic diseases contained chapters devoted to mania and melancholia first to write treatise specifically on mental illness. First to advocate humane treatment of mentally ill. Advocated moral therapy but in reality criticized for inhumane treatment of patients. Important bc it became a model for mental asylums around the world. Son and grandson carried on work, henry and samuel. Samuel wrote book in 1813 about the york retreat that became one of the most famous books in the history of psychiatry. Pressed for construction of state mental hospitals; directly responsible for increase in mental hospitals.
