PSYC 4039 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biological Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry, Social Darwinism
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These concepts go back to issues early on like kuhn"s theory of normal vs. revolution science. Continuity: discontinuity is a major break, shorter assumed that it is discontinuity but the teacher disagreed w/him & see it as continuity, the first biological psychiatry (1850-1900th ) see a development in 4 areas. From 1850-1900, you see that it went from biological psychiatry then it went through a revolution then back to biological: genetics, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry? (started at this time, clinical/descriptive method this. Listed below are new ideas that developed around 1850: degeneration, evolution, eugenics, genetic madness: it was long observed that genetic madness ran along family lines. It created fear & distrust for psychiatrists b/c they were able to technically diagnose people & give them a label which tainted the family. Sometime, psychiatrists abused their powers by falsely accusing people of illnesses: by 1920 degeneration discredited in psychiatry. It is quite rare. c: gene: basic unit of evolutional selection.
