PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Alienist, General Paresis Of The Insane, Nancy School

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Margaret Lumley

Document Summary

Chapter 2: historical and contemporary views of abnormal behaviour. Demonology, gods, and magic: early writings show chinese, egyptians, hebrews, and greeks often attributed abnormal behaviour to a demon or god that had take possession of the person, main treatment for demonic possession was exorcism. Hippocrates" early medical concepts: hippocrates, referred to as the father of modern medicine, denies deities and demons intervened in the development of mental illnesses. Abnormality during the middle ages: during the middle ages, the more scientific aspects of greek medicine survived in the islamic countries of. Mass madness: during the last half of the middle ages in europe a peculiar trend emerged in efforts to understand abnormal behaviour. In the middle ages in europe, management of the mentally disturbed was left largely to the clergy. Exorcism and witchcraft: during the early parts of the middle ages they were treated for the most part kindly.