PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Panic Attack, Twin Study, Orbitofrontal Cortex
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Module 15. 1: defining and classifying psychological disorders: asylums: residential facilities for the mentally ill, general goal of curing the patients" bodily afflictions that gave rise to their symptoms. Philippe pinel and dorothea dix, changed the old approach to treating the mentally ill which was to scare them and drain their blood. They ushered a new approach called moral treatment, leading to patients being treated with kindness and decency, able to roam the hospital halls and other similar things. However, no cures still: by the 1950"s, chlorpromazine was introduced and people with schizophrenia and other disorders were able to function normal under medication. This was no permanent cure, must"ve been taken daily. The medical model: sees psychological conditions through the same lens as western medicine tends to see physical conditions-as sets of symptoms, causes and outcomes with treatments aimed at changing physiological processes in order to alleviate symptoms.
