PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Animal Magnetism, Heredity, Nancy School

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

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The early shanan would treat mental disorders by trephining the opening, called a trephine, permitted the evil spirit to leave the body. Greek doctor hippocrates is referred to as the father of modern medicine he denied that deities and demons intervened in the development of illnesses and insisted that mental disorders had natural causes and appropriate treatments. Classified all disorders into: mania, melancholia and phrenitis (brain fever) and relied on clinical observation. Plato viewed psychological phenomena as responses of the whole organism, reflecting internal states and natural appetites. Aristotle viewed that thinking would eliminate pain and help to attain pleasure and believed that very hot bile generated amorous desires, verbal fluency and suicidal impulses. Mass madness is the widespread occurrence of group behavior disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria whole groups of people were affected simultaneously. Lycanthropy was a condition in which people believed themselves to be possessed by wolves and imitated their behavior.