1.1 PSY I - History of Psychiatry Flashcards

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Psychiatry is a medical specialty devoted to _____

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the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders.

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3 major differences between Psychiatrists and Psychologists.

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Psychiatrists:

1) Completed 4 years of medical school
2) Can diagnose other medical illnesses
3) Can prescribe medications

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Ancient procedure where a hole is made in the patient’s skull in the belief that evil spirits would leave the brain.

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Trepanation

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Beliefs of 2000 BC regarding mental illness

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Demons and devil possess the individual and causes him/her to act in destructive ways.

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Ancient document that describes illnesses which sounds like depression, dementia, and schizophrenia.

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Ebers Papyrus

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Ebers Papyrus (state the approximate year)

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1500 BC

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Theorized that temperaments depended on 4 humors of the body.

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Hippocrates

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Define: Somatization. (460 BC)

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Blaming body parts

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Enumerate: 4 Humors of the Body

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1) Black Bile (Melancholic)
2) Yellow Bile (Choleric)
3) Phlegm (Phlegmatic)
4) Blood (Sanguine)

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If you are described as moody, anxious, or pessimistic, you are most likely abundant in which of the 4 humors of the body?

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Black Bile (Melancholic)

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If you are described as sociable, outgoing, carefree, you are most likely abundant in which of the 4 humors of the body?

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Blood (Sanguine)

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If you are abundant in Yellow Bile, you are most likely to be described as?

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Touchy, Restless, Optimistic, Impulsive

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If you are abundant in Phlegm, you are most likely to be described as?

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Passive, Controlled, Careful

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Define: Hysteria (460 BC)

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Uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear

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Treatment prescribed for Hysteria (460 BC)

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Marriage and Sex, OR luring the uterus back using scents

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Identify Philosopher: Depression is caused by an accumulation of black bile. (200 AD)

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Galen

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Galen: Treatments for accumulation of black bile.

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Blood-letting, purging, diets, exercise, and intentional contraction of malaria.

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Fall of the Roman Empire (410 AD) is characterized by:

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The decline of scientific knowledge about mental illnesses, along with the return to supernatural and demonological explanations.

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Define: Lunacy (410 AD)

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Phenomenon wherein a full moon can drive humans and animals to become wild, aggressive, and irritable.

-Note: Not based on scientific evidence

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705 AD

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Year the first psychiatric hospitals were established.

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Location of the first hospital.

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Baghdad

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Oldest psychiatric hospital in Europe. (1247 AD)

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Bethlehem (Bedlam) Hospital

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Describe patient care in Bedlam Hospital.

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Patients treated inhumanely and underwent torture for treatment.

-Note: Elite people pay to visit and ridicule patients.

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Malleus Maleficarum (1500 AD)

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A published manual of how to torture someone into confessing that she is a witch.

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Treatment utilized by Paracelsus for mental illness.
Insane people were burned at the stakes.
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T/F: Torture and murder of the mentally ill were justified by the scriptural association of madness with evil (1500 AD)
TRUE -Note: Leviticus - "A man or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death."
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1518 AD
King Henry VII founded the Royal College of Physicians to protect the public from unregulated and unqualified quacks.
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1650-1950 AD
Asylum Era
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Key to recovery during the Asylum Era.
Punishment
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Beliefs of the 19th Century regarding mental illness
Mental illness is the result of pooling of blood in the brain
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Enumerate the primary psychiatric treatments of the 19th century.
1) Whirling Chair 2) Tranquilizer Chair 3) Hydrotherapy 4) Extensive use of emetics and purgatives
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Inventor of the Tranquilizer Chair (1760 AD)
Benjamin Rush
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Believed in the improvement of living conditions of patients in asylums, and humane ways of managing these patients. (1792 AD)
Philippe Pinel
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Coined the term "Psychiatry" (1808 AD)
Johann Christian Reil
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Believed brain diseases were responsible for mental illness, and that heredity and upbringing is important in the genesis of mental illness. (1820 AD)
Wilheim Griesinger
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Abolished mechanical restraints at Hanwell Asylum. (1839 AD)
John Conolly
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Year the Royal College of Psychiatrists was founded.
1841 AD
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Coined "Dementia praecox" (1896 AD)
Emil Kraeplin
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Father of Psychotherapy (1897 AD)
Sigmund Freud
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Coined the term "Schizophrenia" (1911 AD)
Eugene Bleuler
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Eugene Bleuler. (1911 AD)
Concentrated on diagnosing schizophrenia, and was the first to rank its symptoms.
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Carl Jung (1912 AD)
Developed own theories of the subconscious because not everything could be related to sex.
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Published the "Statistical Manual for the Use of Institution for the Insane" (1917 AD)
The American Psychiatric Association
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Describe: Insulin-coma therapy (1930's AD)
Patient is given a high amount of insulin to make the decrease their blood sugar in order to induce seizures.
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Treatment used to decrease hallucinations (1935 AD)
Prefrontal lobotomy
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Inventor of electroconvulsive therapy, with renewed hopes that physical treatments could cure mental illness (1938 AD)
Ugo Cerletti
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Observed effects of Lithium salts on guinea pigs (1948 AD)
John Cade
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Approved by the FDA for treatment of mania (1970 AD)
Lithium salts
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Discovered and used for the treatment of psychosis, becoming the first anti-psychotic (1951 AD)
Chloropromazine
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Discovered Chloropromazine (1951 AD)
Paul Charpentier
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1952 AD
The creation of the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) for mental disorders. -Note: Current edition: DSM 5
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Describe: Axis I (DSM IV Classification)
Lists the major psychiatric disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, and drug dependence.
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DSM IV Classification that includes personality disorders, train, defense mechanism.
Axis II
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DSM IV Classification that includes rating of a person's overall function, rated from 0 to 100.
Axis V
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Describe: Axis IV (DSM IV Classification)
Compounding factors precipitating the current disease.
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Describe: Axis III (DSM IV Classification)
Concurrent physical disorder.
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Obeisity would fall under which DSM Axis?
Axis IV
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Major Depressive disorder would fall under which DSM Axis?
Axis I
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Non-accidental ingestion of Paracetamol (30 tabs) would fall under which DSM Axis?
Axis III
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