Additional Flashcards
Who believed that many mentally defective children were actually suffering from emotional and behavioral problems due to inept treatment and a lack of intellectual challenge?
Leta Hollingworth
What term refers to a partial delusion?
Monomania
What condition is characterized by persistent complaints of increased fatigue after mental effort or weakness and exhaustion after minimal physical effort?
Neurasthenia
What term refers to excessive anxiety, worrying, and doubting?
Psychasthenia
What term refers to a condition involving weakness or hoarseness of the voice?
Phonasthenia
Who was the first to describe a medical disorder similar to contemporary OCD and classified it as monomania?
Jean Esquirol
Who, along with Pierre Janet, isolated OCD from neurasthenia?
Freud
Which individual proposed that obsessional patients had an abnormal personality (psychasthenia) and successfully treated compulsions and rituals using techniques similar to modern behavioral therapy?
Pierre Janet
