PSYC 4039 : LOBOTOMY EXAM 2
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Test two study guide: degeneration mental illness is inherited and it worsens as it passes from one generation to the next. Morel and others thought it took a sequence of criminal, sexual perversion and then mentally ill: eugenics was found by galton. The idea of positive which suggests that people with good genes should reproduce (fitter families) and negative which suggests that people with bad genes and proneness to mental illness should not reproduce (sterilization). He did insight therapy because he realized the importance of the subconscious mind. The main point was to move from the id to the ego: meynert epitomized the 1st biological psychiatry (clinical-pathologic approach) and he specialized in neuropathology. Focused on finding problems with the brain under a microscope: growth of psychoanalysis was fueled by founding of local and national psychoanalytic associations and by founding of psychoanalytic training institutes. American psychoanalytic association (apsaa) becomes a federation of local societies.
