Chapter 2: Foundations and Early History of Clinical Psychology Flashcards
Greeks Thinkers who were pivotal in the early development of integrative approaches to illness, and, thus, were precursors to a biopsychosocial perspective.
Hippocrates
Plato
Galen
Hippocrates
Felt disease was primarily the result of an imbalance in four bodily fluids or humors rather than to spiritual factors
Plato
Saw the spirit or soul as being in charge of the body and that problems residing in the soul could result in physical illness
Socrates
As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul
Aristotle
Maintained a scientific emphasis and felt that certain distinct emotional states including joy, anger, fear, and courage impacted the functioning of the human body. Felt that treatment for mental problems should include talking and the use of logic to influence the soul and psyche
Galen
Greek physician who integrated the work and perspectives outlined by Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others and developed a holistic program of medical practice that became the foundation of medicine in Europe for 1,000 years
Middle Ages
Reemergence of the focus on supernatural influences to explain events; healing and treatment became a spiritual rather than a medical issue; Exorcism came back as a treatment
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Felt that there was both a theological truth and a scientific truth; reasoned that the soul was unable to become sick
Mental Illness
Must have a physical cause or be due to problems in reason or passion (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Bishop Nicholas Oresme
Felt that abnormal behavior and mental illness were due to diseases such as melancholy; the insane were sometimes humanely and compassionately cared for by people living in rural villages
Paracelsus
Swiss physician who popularized the notion that various movements of the stars, moon, and planets influenced mood and behavior; also focused on the biological foundations of mental illness and developed human treatment
Juan Luis Vives & Johann Weyer
Helped shift theories of mental illness from a focus on the soul to an emphasis on behavior and promoted humane treatments of the mentally ill
Renaissance
Renewed interest in the physical and medical worlds; new discoveries in chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics unfolded rapidly and were met with great enthusiasm
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Discovered through autopsy that a diseased organ in the body could cause illness and death
Andreas Vesalius
Dutch physician who published an anatomy textbook in 1543 delineating dissection of the human body
William Harvey
English physician who used the scientific method in 1628 to determine tht blood circulated through the body because of the function of the heart
Rene Descartes
French philospher who argued that the mind and body were separate
Bedlam
Variant of Bethlehem; connoted chaos and hellish circumstances; originated when St. Mary’s of Bethlehem was opened in London during 1547
Rudolf Virchow & Louis Pasteur
Discovered that disease and illness could be attributed to dysfunction at the cellular level
Dualism
Tempered in the last part of 18th Century
Benjamin Rush
Authored the first American text in psychiatry, positing that the mind could cause a variety of diseases
Franz Mesmer
Austrian physician, and others noticed that many people experiencing paralysis, deafness, and blindness had no biomedical pathology, leaving psychological causes suspect
Claude Bernard
Argued for the recognition of the role of psychological factors in physical illness
Jean Martin Charcot
French physician, used hypnosis to treat a wide variety of conversion disorders
Moral Therapy
Psychosocial approach to mental illness; sought to treat patients as humanely as possible and encouraged the nurturance of interpersonal relationships
Philippe Pinel
Did much to improve living conditions and treatment approaches used by mental hospitals during the 19th century; became director of several mental hospitals in France and altered the treatment facilities to maximize patient welfare and humane forms of treatment
Eli Todd
Developed a retreat-like program for the treatment of the mentally ill in Hartford, Connecticut called the Institute of the Living
William Tuke
Developed more humane treatment approaches in English mental hospitals