PSYCH 9C Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ford Focus, Anxiety, Sigmund Freud
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Large holes cut into the person"s skull to let the evil spirits escape. 16th century, special hospitals for the insane; rather a way to imprison a person rather than treat them as a way to keep them from hurting themselves or others. Chaining to bed, keeping them in dark rooms . Hydrotherapy; sprayed by water in order to stimulate them. Wet pack; wrap client in wet sheets. Continuous bath; 90 degrees f to sedate clients. Insulin therapy; dangerous and less effective that ect. Give them insulin for blood sugar to drop, let them slip into a coma, experience convulsions. Glucose had t be given to get them out of. Metrazol therapy was another form of convulsive therapy; produced a grand mal type of seizure. Lobotomy; brain operation severing frontal lobe and lower centers of the brain comas. People who are not licensed but still give treatments can be pastoral counselors, aids in treatment centers they are called.
