History Flashcards
The doctrine that an evil being or spirit can dwell within a person and control his or her mind and bodt thereby can be treated by exorcism, the ritualistic casting out of evil spirits
Demonology
Cutting holes to the skull in the belief that evil spirits may come out
Trephination or trepanning
Hippocrates
-Mental disturbances have natural causes
-4 humors:
blood (heart-sanguine)
Black bile (spleen-melancholic)
Yellow bile (liver-choleric)
Phlegm (brain-phlegmatic)
Characterized by large-scale outbreaks of bizarre behavior
Mass Hysteria
Whole groups of people were simultaneously compelled to run out in the streets, dance, shout and jump around in patterns as if they were at a particularly wild party late at night
Rave or Saint Vitus’ dance or tarantism
One of the first mental institutions
Priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem (asylum)
Pioneered humanitarian treatment at LaBicetre; begun to treat the patients as sick human beings rather than as beasts
Philippe Pinel
Recommended drawing copious amounts of blood
Benjamin Rush
Patients engage in purposeful, calming activities
Moral treatment
Dorethea Dix
- crusaders for prisoners and mentally ill
- known as mental hygiene movement
General paresis
Degenerative disorder with psychological symptoms
-caused by syphilis
___ work lead to the notion that mental illness can be inherited
Galton
Promotion of enforced sterilization to eliminate undesriable characteristics from the population; state laws required mentally ill to be sterilized
Eugenics
Person who started Insulin-coma therapy
Manfred Sakel
Person who started Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Cerletti and Bini