PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 14 Psyh
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Trephining- people believe mental illness was caused by demons, so people would cut a whole in the skull to release the demons. Burning: when people thought someone was a witch they would burn them. Exorcism: if there was believed to be a demon inside you, you would be exorcised. Hypocretes: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm were the foor essential fluids in our body. If one of the fluids was off balance, that was the cause of mental illness. Biology and psychopathology: biological model: psychological disorders have biological or medical causes, biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body. Psychological viewpoints of psychopathology: psychodynamic theorists: abnormal behavior stems from repressed conflicts and urges that are fighting to become conscious, behaviorists: abnormal behavior is learned, cognitive theorists: abnormal behavior comes from irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought. Icd-10 comes from the health organization: dsm-5 what we use, diagnostic of mental disorders created in 1952 by.
