A brief history of psychiatry Flashcards
Abnormal Illness Behaviour
Pilowsky
Advocated treatment without mechanical
restraint
Conolly
Psychopaths: creative, aggressive, inadequante
Henderson
Agnosia
Freud
Alexithymia
The alexithymia construct was originally conceptualized by Nemiah, Freyberger, and Sifneos (1976) as encompassing a cluster of cognitive traits including difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings to others, externally oriented thinking, and a limited imaginal capacity.
Anxiety
Lewis
Crisis intervention
Linderman (1944), Caplan
(1961)
Expanding on Lindemann’s work, Caplan (1961) describes the four
stages of a crisis reaction as follows:
1. An initial rise in tension occurs in response to an event.
2. Increased tension disrupts daily living.
3. Unresolved tension results in depression.
4. Failure to resolve the crisis may result in a psychological breakdown
Development of clozapine
Kane
Development of imipramine
Kuhn
Ecological theory of suicide
Sainsbury
Sociocultural, anthropological phenomenon
Gestalt therapy
F Perls
Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy which emphasizes personal responsibility, and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person’s life, and the self-regulating adjustments
Role playing
Hypnotherapy
Milton Erikson
Illness behaviour
Mechanic
The term illness behavior was introduced by Mechanic and Volkart to describe the individuals’ different ways to respond to their own health
Interpersonal therapy
Sullivan
Malarial development of neurosyphillis
Wagner von Jauregg
Nobel prize
Moral treatment; breaking of the chains of
the inmates of the Saltpetriere
Pinel
Primal therapy
A. Janov
Psychobiology
Adolf Meyer
Common sense approach
Social action
Ergasia-action of the total organism
Autobiographical life chart in therapy
Psychodrama
J Moreno
Recipricol inhibition
Joseph Wolpe
also- depression conditioned by repeat losses in the past
Self-instructional training
Meichenbaum
Social learning
Albert Bandura
Reciprocal determinism
Sociological theory of suicide
Durkheim
Suicide
Thomas Browne
The sick role
Parsons
Therapeutic community
Maxwell Jones
Token economies
Ayllon and Azrin
Transactional analysis
F Berne Transactional analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social transactions are analyzed to determine the ego state of the patient (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a basis for understanding behavior.
Hysteria a disease of the mind
Thomas Syndenham
Removal of post
central, temporal, and
frontal cortices from p
atients
Burckhardt
Hypnotism
James Braid; based on
work by Anton Mesmer
Dysmorphophobia
Morselli
Dementia precox
Emil Kraeplin
Barbiturates
Adolf von Baeyer in 1864
Spirochaete isolated in GPI the
beginnings of biological psychiatry
Schaudinn
Four A’s of Schizophrenia
Eugene Bleuler
Behaviourism, stressed the observable rather than unconscious
John Watson
Capgras delusion
Raboul Lachouz
Fregoli
Courbon & Frail
Bell and pad treatment of eneuresis
Mowrer and Mowrer
Syndrome of intermetamorphosis
Courbon and Turques
Schizoaffective disorder
Kasanin
Autism
Leo Kanner
Bilateral ablation of the prefrontal cortex
causes chimpanzees to become more placid
and less anxious
Fulton and Jacobsen