PSY 383 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Etiology, Psych, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
30 Aug 2016
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Health: complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Disease during prehistory- considered to arise when evil spirits entered the body. Humoral theory of illness- diseases resulted when the humors or circulating fluids of the body were out of balance: personality types associated with the humors. Renaissance to present day- technical bases of medicine are understood. Traditional view of health is the biomedical model: a disease results from exposure to a pathogen, views health as the absence of disease. Specific unconscious conflicts produce physical disturbances symbolizing repressed psychological conflicts. Specific illnesses are produced by people"s internal conflicts: linked patterns of personality to specific illnesses, criticism- conflict or personality type is not sufficient to produce illness. Modern psychosomatic medicine investigates how emotion and health are interconnected. Health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors. Advantages: maintains the macrolevel and microlevel processes continually interact to influence health and illness, emphasizes both health and illness.
