Historical background Flashcards
What was the theoretical approach in the Early period?
Animism
What is animism
attribution of a soul to inanimate things
What was treatment in the early period?
exorcism, trepining (Craniometry), ostracism
What is trepining (craniometry)?
Hole in the skull
What was the theoretical approach in the Greek period?
Somatogenesis
What is somatogenesis?
Changes in psychological function are due to physical changes
What was treatment in Greek period?
Aim for tranquility
What is psychogenesis?
the psychological cause to which a mental illness of behavioural disturbance may be attributed
Which time period had a strong expression of a tradition of psychogenesis?
Late Greek and Roman period
What is the medieval theoretical approach?
belief in demonology
What was treatment in the medieval era?
Prayers, touching with relics, laying of hands
What era had the first ever legal definitions for those who are distressed?
Medieval period
How many women were executed in Europe during the medieval period?
100,000 (most scapegoats)
What literature examples of mental disturbances are there in the renaissance and elizabethan period?
Macbeth- hallucinations
Lady Macbeth- obsessive rituals
Hamlet- psychogenesis
What was the attitude towards mentally ill towards the industrial revolution
Animalism. Used them as forms of entertainment
When did the UK propose a reasoning argument for mental health problems?
Late 1700s by Locke in the humanitarianism and social revolution
What is the social theory of vulnerability?
Mentally ill should be approached with compassion as their reasoning was affected by sever personal and social problems
What movement took place in the Victorian era?
Eugenic movement (put white males on top)
Who found that diseases could affect the brain?
Kraepelin in 19c-20c.
Chemical imbalance as a causal of MHP
What did Charcot and Breuer find with their patients with intermittent paralysis?
Episodes are triggered by precise discussion of early trauma
