Important Names Flashcards
Carl Jung
Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex, and extraversion and introversion.
Mary Ainsworth
The strange situation
Irvin Yalom
The four givens of human condition :isolation, meaninglessness, mortality and freedom
Erving goffman
The total institution
Fuller Torrey
Torrey has conducted numerous research studies, particularly on possible infectious causes of schizophrenia. He has become well known as an advocate of the idea that severe mental illness is due to biological factors and not social factors.[4] He has appeared on national radio and television outlets and written for many newspapers. He has received two Commendation Medals by the U.S. Public Health Service and numerous other awards and tributes. He has been criticized by a range of people, including federal researchers and others for some of his attacks on de-institutionalization and his support for forced medication as a method of treatment.[5] argued against certain types of parenting causing schizophrenia
Karl jasper
Jaspers also distinguished between primary and secondary delusions.
Richard von Kraft-ebbing
Krafft-Ebing’s principal work is Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study), which was first published in 1886 and expanded in subsequent editions. The last edition from the hand of the author (the twelfth) contained a total of 238 case histories of human sexual behaviour.[3]
UGo cerletti
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for a short duration.
Emil Kraepelin
Dementia praecox. Kraepelin recognised six mixed states:-
Depressive/ anxious mania Excited depression Depression with flight of ideas Manic stupor Mania with poverty of thought Inhibited mania
Bénédict Morel
démence précoce
Erik Kandel
Research into memory using Aplysia
R.D Laing
Argued for certain types of parenting causing schizophrenia
Jean Piaget
The “three mountains” experiment
Antipsychiatry
The anti-psychiatry movement began in the 1960’s and supports the notion that mental illnesses are social constructs which reflect deviation from social norms.
Famous figures associated with the movement include:-
Thomas Szasz R.D.Laing Michel Foucault Franco Basaglia Next question
Robert spitzer
Robert Spitzer has been one of the most influential psychiatrists that has contributed to the development of the DSM.
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