PSY 210- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
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We must love and work or we grow ill ~freud. How do we know when someone is mentally healthy: subjectivity, social constructions, cultural value. Syndrome characterized by significant disturbance in cognition, etc. Expectable or culturally appropriate (grief, disaster) not diagnosed. Historical explanations for abnormal bx: supernatural: demonic possession. Trephine- release of demonic spirits by small incision: biological (somatogenesis) Hippocrates & galen were influential in western thought. Johann weyer: a dutch physician in the 16th century; coined the term mental illness . Illness is not possession and should not be punished. Syphilis lead to modern views about mental illness: the mind (psychogenesis) Lunatic asylums: movement started in europe in 15th & 16th c, later called state hospital. Phillip pinel: ordered unchaining of asylum patients at paris asylum: dorothea dix & others lobbied for moral treatment (1802-1887) 1948: who included a section on mental disorders in the 6th edition of icd.
