PSY240H5 Chapter Notes -Trepanning, Philippe Pinel, Psychopathology
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A place for treatment of the mentally ill. units for the mentally ill were established w/i the great. Arab hospitals in baghdad in ad 800 and asylums were created in other arab cities some 500 yrs. before. Treatment in arab asylums followed the tradition of care, support and compassion. The noise and disruption among the residents of bethlem. Royal hospital (as it is now known) prompted the use of the word (the local corruption of bethlem ). This asylum was established by henry viii in 1547 when he had the monastery of st. mary of bethlehem converted. A psychological approach to understanding abnormal behaviour devised by john b. watson (1858 1935), which declared that psychology must be restricted to the study of observable features, that is, the behaviour of organisms. Watson considered abnormal functioning to be learning was derived from ivan pavlov"s (1849 1936) studies of classical conditioning.
