PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Mental Health Association, Franz Mesmer, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
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Formed canadian national committee for mental health hygiene (later canadian. What is adequate functioning: culture and gender influence expression, admittance, likelihood and treatments for maladaptive behaviours. State claimed no responsibility for the insane but could take away rights from people declared mad. Frenzies and epidemics often found in religious services for the economically and socially deprived methodist movements, mystical russian sects. Social psychology and influence of others on self-perceptions. Public hospital in virginia first hospital exclusively for mentally ill with treatments like electric shock, starvation and restraints. Patients warehoused if they could not afford private care and isolated from cities, which contributed to slow progress in application of medical advances. The emergence of modern perspectives: basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, neurology and chemistry increases in late 19th century which contributes to awareness of biological causes of insanity, wilhelm griesinger: brain pathology explains psychological disorders; wrote the. Sigmund freud: mental life of an individual is hidden from consciousness; worked with.
