Psychology 2042A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Encopresis, Enuresis, Toilet Training

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Scott Wier

Document Summary

Health-related disorders are different from other mental disorders largely because children"s adjustment problems are more directly connected to the impact of the physical illness. During the medieval period, these early philosophies were overshadowed by the belief that mental and physical illnesses were caused by demonic possession, requiring a quick and gruesome dispatch of the afflicted person. Psychodynamic theory and the emerging discoveries of modern medicine often clashed during the early years o the 20th century, however, as debates over the relative importance of the mind-body dichotomy. As a result of these developments, an early distinction emerged between disorders caused by physical factors and those caused by emotional or psychological factors. Physical disorders that stem form, or are affected by, psychological and social factors were referred to as psychosomatic and later, psychophysiologcal, which meant that psychological factors affected somatic (physical) function.