PSYC 4039 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eugenics, Neurasthenia
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The book talks of schizophrenogenic mother psychoanalytic term used to describe the personality of a mother who would cause schizophrenia: this same concept was also applied to autistic children, problem: they didn"t know autism was different from schizophrenia back in the day; they thought it was just childhood schizophrenia, the term refrigerator mother refers to the mother. 2 refrigerator mother concept was bullshit: he won"t ask about any person mentioned in the book that he did not mention in class, same goes for the asylums, test review, main subject: the first biological psychiatry. Eugenics: minimally know what eugenics is, an attempt to control human evolution, know who invented the concept of eugenics (and maybe coined the term as well, first person to suggest that we have this science, know the different ways of doing eugenics, know the difference between positive and negative.
