PSYA02H3 Chapter : PSYA02 Ch 18

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Ppl w/ paranoid schizophrenia may have been regarded as prophets in the past. Trephining, a surgical procedure in which a hole is made in the skull of a living person to permit evil spirits to leave the victim s head. > other rituals included curse, insults, exorcism, beatings, starving, drowning, drinking foul concoctions. Johann weir was a 16th ce physician who was banned for believing these were mental illnesses. The mentally ill would be strapped into a tranquilizing chair w/ a box placed over their head and subjected to terrible treatments. Philippe pinel was a french physician who sought out fresh air and freedom for the patients as a recovery route that succeeded. Dororthea dix led the mental hospital reform in north america. Franz mesmer devised a theory of magnetic fluxes where he cured the insane by manipulating iron rods and bottle of chemicals; he hypnotized his patients that alleviated their symptoms, hypnosis = mesmerism.