PSC 168 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Deinstitutionalisation, William Tuke, Lobotomy
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Sufferer who seeks relief from a healer: trained socially accepted healer whose expertise is accepted. Satan"s influence: tarantism = people starting to dance and go into convulsions. Syphilis, an organic disease, led to general paresis (irreversible disorder with both physical and mental symptoms including paralysis and delusions of grandeur: most techniques failed to work using biological approaches. Lobotomy, teeth extraction, tonsillectomy, hydrotherapy failed: psychogenic perspective- view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological, gained following when hypnotism demonstrated potential. Friedrich anton mesmer had patients sit in dark room with music wearing costume and touching troubled area of patients with a rod. Seemed to be helped by this treatment called mesmerism: bernheim and liebault showed that hysterical disorders can be induced in normal people when under hypnosis. Joined by sigmund freud who helped him develop psychoanalysis, the theory/treatment of abnormal mental functioning emphasizing unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology.
