PSYC 1010 Lecture : PSYChpater_18_-_The_Treatment_of_Mental_Disorders.doc
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Chapter 18 the treatment of mental disorders. 4 basic approaches to treatment of mental disorders: Insight therapies: behaviour therapy, cognitive-behaviour therapies, treatment of groups. Disorders always there; just viewed differently-example, person with schizophrenia may have been said to be god"s voice or spirits; possessed with devil or evil. Trephining: surgical procedure in which a hole is made in the skull of a living person. An opening for the spirits of evil to leave the victims head insults or curses were said to persuade the demon to leave; exorcism was attempted to make the body an unpleasant place. Beatings, starving, drowning, drinking of foul-tasting concoctions. 18th century, johann wier was first to question witchcraft-said it was an illness instead. Eventually people with disorders were sent to asylums; kept in chains; shown to public for fees; tied up, doused in cold water, bled, made to vomit; spun in a chair.
