Historical Views of Mental Illness Flashcards
What are the two views called in historical context of M.I?
Supernatural
Humorism
When was the supernatural view used?
it was prevalent up to the middle ages.
What was the supernatural theory?
That there were devils and demons trapped inside the skull.
What M.I is linked with the supernatural view?
Epilepsy
What treatment is used for the supernatural view?
Trepanning
What is Trepanning?
Where you drill wholes into the patients skull to release the devils and demons.
What is the humorism view?
Hippocrates believed an imbalance of bodily fluids resulted in a mental illness.
What are the four bodily fluids?
Yellow bile
Black bile
Blood
Phlegm
When was the humorism view used?
400BC
What M.I was related to Humorism?
Melancholy
What is Melancholy?
An excess of blood in the body
What treatment was used for the humorism view?
Blood letting
What is blood letting?
Cutting the arteries or use of leaches to extract blood from the body,decreasing the amount.
