PSY100H1 Chapter Psychological Disorders: Chapter 15
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Middle ages: ascension of scientific though began to displace the religious domination, explanations for mental illness shifted from demon possession to physical illnesses, started believing that the person was suffering from some sort of health affliction. Goal of curing the patient"s bodily afflictions that gave rise to their symptoms. Extreme medical methods at the time: such as draining 40% of people"s blood to purify them and shock the person out of their diseased state. Courageous activism thanks to heroic figures: philippe pinel (physician in france, dorothea dix (school teacher in the united states) Both advocated for the mentally ill led to a widespread reforms that ushered in a new approach, called moral treatment encouraged that patients should be respected more kindly and with more respect. However, there were no other treatments at the time, and many people afflicted with mental illness were permanently incarcerated. Over half a million people in psychiatric hospitals in the us.
