Midterm IDs

Question 1

Inside of an asylum that looks batshit (painting)

Answer 1

Hogarth, 1735, shows the hellish conditions and the way madness was something of a spectator sport

Question 2

You can’t use general methods to cure madness because it’s actually many disorders!

Answer 2

Barrie, 1758, one of two competing views on madness, and his was correct and won out!

Question 3

“Notwithstanding we are told in this treatise.”

Answer 3

Monroe, 1758, shows how there was a lot of debate/infighting (come to my asylum!)

Question 4

Kinsman transformed into someone who can say “be good or ill send you back.”

Answer 4

Hoffman, 1961, shows the structure of asylums, how they worked by progression and threat

Question 5

List of dates, dec 1st and January 1st, with descriptions of patients

Answer 5

Morrison, 1828, shows us something important about asylums: they gave psychologists a captive audience to study patients in!

Question 6

Since the nerves work via fluids, we need to use fluids to keep them in check!

Answer 6

Morrison, 1828, shows the interestingly logical train of thinking, the reason people could accept these cures

Question 7

Person describing the water cure

Answer 7

Darwin, 1849, shows how respected scientists used these methods but also how desperate they were to make these methods seem believable.

Question 8

Describing gage

Answer 8

Harlow, 1869, shows us how we can use disastrous accidents as essentially free experiments! Yay!

Question 9

Talking about magnetic stuff, and bragging about his magnetic abilities.

Answer 9

Mesmer, 1775, shows the way you had to play up your science, but also how he was trying to establish a pretty total science that effect everything.

Question 10

Numerated list that talks about magnetic stuff

Answer 10

Binet, 1888, shows how he was trying to create an all-encompassing theory

Question 11

Description of a preacher in mesmeric terms

Answer 11

Dods, 1847, shows something of the gender dynamics, and also the Union of religion and science where the mind is concerned

Question 12

Drawings of mesmeric hand positions

Answer 12

Davey, 1862, shows just how up close and personal mesmerism got

Question 13

Boundary-work and science vs. non science

Answer 13

Gieryn, 1983, talk about the debate were very interested in, and which mesmerism represented back in the 19th century… The borders between science and pseudoscience

Question 14

You only get hypnotized if you’re open to it!

Answer 14

Braid, 1843, shows us how the theories built their own defenses into themselves

Question 15

New foundation of psychology based on gradation

Answer 15

Darwin, 1859, shows how far reaching his theory could be, but also how limited his own idea of it was… Other people made it what they wanted it to be.

Question 16

Mind might be influence by evolution but it’s hard to say

Answer 16

Darwin, 1838, shows how early on he was very hesitant to bring his theory into the mental space

Question 17

Thorndike puzzle box

Answer 17

Thorndike, 1898, shows how dareins theories eventually paved the way for animal experimentation

Question 18

Stuff that talks about rationally testing thoughts from the outside

Answer 18

James, 1870s, shows us the importance of scientific processes to the people looking at these theories.

Question 19

Super early description of the wandering womb that doesn’t actually say “womb”

Answer 19

Plato, 360s BC, shows us how the idea that insanity in mothers is related to wombs/babies is an old old idea

Question 20

Weird drawings of a dude in bed

Answer 20

Hammond, 1871, the description shows us how morality and medicine were connected back in the day

Question 21

I have a list of awesome people and they all died old!

Answer 21

Bears, 1873, shows us how people are starting to believe that mental health can influence the physics (important shift!)

Question 22

Modern civilization causes a decrease in nerve force!

Answer 22

Beard, 1881, shows us that people started to believe society itself could be the problem!

Question 23

Tree diagram of mental illnesses

Answer 23

Beard, 1881, clear distinction between severity, classification, and hierarchy

Question 24

Women have all these problems, and they have thing blood duh!

Answer 24

Mitchell, 1877, shows gender stuff

Question 25

A healthy state can only exist with traditional gender roles!

Answer 25

Roosevelt, 1901, shows us how gender roles and morality became scientific!

Question 26

Kind of dark room with people doing a vivisection

Answer 26

Mouthy, 1832, the artist isn’t agnostic about the pain the dogs are feeling! This debate is something artists weigh in on heavily.

Question 27

Discussing findings or things like brain hemisphere firmness and medullary convulsions

Answer 27

Bell, 1811, shows us the different things that could be learned from each method.

Question 28

Dog sad drawing

Answer 28

Darwin, 1872, shows how people are becoming cognizant of the feelings of other animals… Or at least interested in the possibility of these feelings (the paradox!)

Question 29

Dogs have a conscience!

Answer 29

Darwin, 1872, shows the about flip scientists could do and the conflict in the community!

Question 30

Painting of a vivisection with two crowds

Answer 30

Crawford, 1911, shows the debate even in the scientific community.

Question 31

Vivisection fucks with the character of the students!!

Answer 31

American anti-vivisection society, 1895, science and character are in some ways combined! The two interact.

Question 32

Man is no longer expected to endure or cause pain

Answer 32

James, 1905, shows us the backdrop of the vivisection debate, changing approach to society

Question 33

Animal activity had to be thought of as something lower rather than something higher!

Answer 33

Morgan, 1894, this is still important today and shows us the debate about animals… They can’t be too much like us, even as they are kind of like us.

Question 34

Thorndikes experiments sucked

Answer 34

Morgan, 1898, shows us the way in which scientists believed they needed to strike a balance

Question 35

Maze diagram

Answer 35

Small, 1901, shows us the middle ground… We can do some of Morgan but not too much!

Question 36

describing the different habits/personalities of cats and mice

Answer 36

Small, 1901, even as we struggle not to anthropomorphize animals we do it!

Question 37

My heart leaps up when I behold

Answer 37

Wordsworth, 1802, “child is father of the man!”

Question 38

Kids playing is our way of seeing the past of our species!

Answer 38

Hall, 1904, one competing idea of why studying children is so interesting

Question 39

Dream of a house on fire

Answer 39

Freud, 1905, this is the beginning of Freuds ideas! Shows how important dreams were to him

Question 40

The unconscious-conscious distinction is dangerous for psychology!

Answer 40

James, 1890, shows us how/why psychologists were Leary of ideas like Freuds… Too convenient

Question 41

Talking about action, reaction, and final adjustment

Answer 41

Meyer, 1908, shows the power of Freud… This is exactly what his theory does! Talks about humans in easy terms

Question 42

People loved me in America!

Answer 42

Freud, 1925, shows us how Americans were very ready to accept Freud

Question 43

Dream interpretation shows us: Wish fulfillment!

Answer 43

Fried, 1913, this is a huge pillar of Freuds theory… And it comes up pretty late

Question 44

Photos of people with “spirits”

Answer 44

Mumler, 1861, shows us how mysterious the camera was to people, how new the technology was.

Question 45

We feel somehow connected to everything in the world

Answer 45

James, 1902, shows us how people had this ready idea of spirituality, this sense of “everything else,” that let spirituality take its hold

Question 46

The angle of the womb makes women take up strange isms!

Answer 46

Marvin, 1874, shows us how people are still trying to domesticate women by connecting mental illness, child rearing, and atypical behaviors

Question 47

The mind is a bad witness of physiological stuff!!

Answer 47

Wood, 1910, shows us the drive in the early 20th century to rely less on fallible people and more on increasing mechanical precision

Question 48

Pines breaking off some chains

Answer 48

Tony Robert-fleury, 1876, shows the transition of the way we thought about minds and brains in a very dramatic way

Question 49

Lots of citing of pinel and tuke, along with critiques on the asylum system in general, how it replaced physical chains with mental chains, and so wasn’t truly revolutionary

Answer 49

Foucault, 1965, it’s an interesting perspective that reminds us we need to set events like pinel and tuke in their contexts. They were steps forward, yes, but not complete reversals of the problem.

Question 50

Many genii or especially sensitive people become mad when normals don’t, mental illness seems much like physical illness and can thus be cured, we must be both affable and firm

Answer 50

Pinel, 1794, shows us the emergence of medical attitudes toward mental illness (it’s not just criminal behavior anymore!)

Question 51

Descriptions of treatments used in asylums, the daily life of people in asylums, or moral treatments of people in asylums

Answer 51

Tuke, 1813, this shows us the use of people in asylums as experimental subjects

Question 52

The constitution of man, the way mankind relates to the world and the worlds effects of people (climate and shit), list of phenological traits, description of the components of phenological traits

Answer 52

Combe, 1841, shows us the way people used phrenology to break up the human mind into small parts, just like they did the body

Question 53

Descriptions of and lessons on/about phrenological capacities

Answer 53

Fowler, 1847, the distinction between moral and intellectual capacities is very interesting

Question 54

Imp of the perverse, discussion of the inability to stop yourself (second person narration, then switches to first) of doing what you know you shouldn’t do.

Answer 54

Poe, 1845, it’s a really interesting portrayal of a person that fits with a phrenological view, and that it’s hard to shake about people: we just kinda do the things were meant to do, predisposed to do.

Question 55

The development of moral faculties in humans, and the way society moves forward

Answer 55

Darwin, 1871, shows his ideas about natural selection being applied to human society as well as morality

Question 56

It’s impossible to separate our emotions from their physiological symptoms, the physiological symptoms of our emotions develop first, and then the feeling itself that we name

Answer 56

James, 1890, this shows us some very interesting thoughts about mind and body, and the ways people were considering the two as connected… Body causes the mind!

Question 57

First person description of to rest cure and a condescending doctor

Answer 57

Stetson, 1892, shows the gender dynamics of mental health and stuff

Question 58

Description of the way vivisection works and experiments involving vivisection, things learned from vivisection

Answer 58

Keen, 1885, shows us why vivisection was a thing: people believe it really worked! You can truly learn some cool things!

Question 59

Mentions keen, horrors of vivisection, things we haven’t learned from vivisection, other places we could learn/study

Answer 59

White, 1885, shows the turmoil surrounding the idea of vivisection… Very strong advocates on each side

Question 60

First person of a dude on a fucking island, paints vivisection in a poor light and talks about scary half-people

Answer 60

Wells, 1896, shows how people like artists and authors were very strongly weighing in on the debate over vivisection

Question 61

Mental life is built on past mental life, builds on itself as earlier versions fade. Childhood effects the adults mental life

Answer 61

Freud, 1930, weighs in on the “child is father of the man” debate

Question 62

Description of psychoanalysis and its history, talk of his methods, his successes, discussion of transference.

Answer 62

Freud, 1909, shows his importance as well as some of the ways he dealt with objections while also giving us a lot of his theory.

Question 63

Bashing Freud, repeatedly and intentionally and powerfully mentions women

Answer 63

Beauvoir, 1949, shows problems with Freud, backlash, increasing importance of women in psychology and their struggle for equality and seriousness in the field. This is just another moment in women’s difficult relationship with psychology.