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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

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Demonology

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Cutting holes to the skull in the belief that evil spirits may come out

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Trephination or trepanning

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Hippocrates

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-Mental disturbances have natural causes
-4 humors:
blood (heart-sanguine)
Black bile (spleen-melancholic)
Yellow bile (liver-choleric)
Phlegm (brain-phlegmatic)

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Characterized by large-scale outbreaks of bizarre behavior

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Mass Hysteria

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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

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Rave or Saint Vitus’ dance or tarantism

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One of the first mental institutions

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Priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem (asylum)

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Pioneered humanitarian treatment at LaBicetre; begun to treat the patients as sick human beings rather than as beasts

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Philippe Pinel

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Recommended drawing copious amounts of blood

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Benjamin Rush

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Patients engage in purposeful, calming activities

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Moral treatment

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Dorethea Dix

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  • crusaders for prisoners and mentally ill

- known as mental hygiene movement

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General paresis

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Degenerative disorder with psychological symptoms

-caused by syphilis

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___ work lead to the notion that mental illness can be inherited

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Galton

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Promotion of enforced sterilization to eliminate undesriable characteristics from the population; state laws required mentally ill to be sterilized

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Eugenics

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Person who started Insulin-coma therapy

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Manfred Sakel

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Person who started Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Cerletti and Bini

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Prefrontal lobotomy

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Egas Moniz

*often led to listlessness, apathy and lack of some cognitive abilities

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Pioneered classification of mental illness based on biological causes

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Emil Kraepelin

  • Syndrome-cluster of symptoms that co-occur
  • Proposed 2 major syndromes
  • Dementia praecox
  • Manic depressive psychosis
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Treated patients with hysteria using animal magnetism (undetectable fluid found in all living organisms which could become blocked)

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Mesmer

*early practitioner of hypnosis called “mesmerism”

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Used hypnosis to facilitate catharsis

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Josef Breuer

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Rational Emotive therapy (Albert Ellis)

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built on the idea that how we feel is largely influenced by how we think. As is implied by the name, this form of therapy encourages the development of rational thinking to facilitate healthy emotional expression and behavior.

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The genetic-environment paradigm

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Shows how behavior, abnormal behavior and psychopathology are being influenced by the interaction of the genes and environment

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Proband

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first affected by the disorder in the family

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Polygenic

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Influenced by many genes

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Chain-like structures within a cell nucleus that contain the genes

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Chromosomes

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Genotype

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Set of genes responsible for a particular trait

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Phenotype

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  • observed structural and functional characteristics that result from an interaction of genotype and the environment
  • physical expression, characteristics of that trait
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Gene-environment correlational model

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genetically determined tendency na sila rapud ang maka contribute sa ilang vulnerability sa usa ka possible disorder

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Epigenetics

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Immediate effects of the environment influence cells that turn certain genes on or off can be passed to different generations

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Gene-environment interaction

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a given person’s sensitivity or reaction to an environmental event is influenced by genes