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A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected

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Psychological disorder

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Breakdown in cognitive, emotional or behavioral functioning

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Psychological dysfunction

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Scientific study of Psychological disorders

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Psychopathology

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How many people in the population as a whole have the disorder

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Prevalence

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Statistics on how many new cases occur during a given period such as year

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Incidence

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Follow a somewhat individual pattern

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Course

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Pattern that tend to last a long time

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Chronic course

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Recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time

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Episodic course

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Improve without any treatment in a relatively short period

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Tome-limited course

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Anticipated course of the disorder

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Prognosis

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Study of origins has yo do with why a disorder begins and includes biological, Psychological, and social dimensions

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Etiology

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Religious rituals were performed to rid the victim of the spirits

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Exorcisms

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Common treatments i Supernatural Traditions

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Rest, sleep, and a healthy and happy environment.

Baths, ointments, and various potions

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One of the chief advisers to the king of france, a bishop and philosopher named_____ suggested that the diseases of melancholy (depression) was the source of some bizarre behavior rather than demons

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Nicholas Oresme

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King of France with mental disorder in 14th century

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King Charles VI of France

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Phenomenon of emotion contagion in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread those around us.

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Mass hysteria

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A Swiss physician who lived for 1493 to 1541, rejected notions of possession nh the devil, suggesting instead that the movements of the moon and stars had profound effects on people’s psychological functioning

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Paracelsus

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Greek physician who is considered to the father of modern western Medicine

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Hippocrates

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Work of Hippocrates written between 450 and 359 BC in which they suggested that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease

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Hippocratic Corpus

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Roman physician, later adopted the ideas of Hippocrates and developed them further creating a powerful and influential school of thought within the biological tradition

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Galen

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Normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors; blood, black nile, yellow bile and phlegm

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Humoral theory of disorders

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Humoral theory if disorders

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Blood- heart
Black bile- spleen
Phlegm - brain
Choler/yellow bile- liver

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First example of associating psychological disorders with a chemical imbalance

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Humoral theory

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Literal meaning red like blood. Someone who is ruddy in complexion, cheerful and optimistic

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Sanguine

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Means depressive. Caused by black bile flooding the brain

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Melancholic

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Apathy and sluggishness, calm under stress, humor phlegm

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Phlegmatic

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Hot tempered

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Choleric person

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Measured amount of blood was removed from the body, often with leaches.

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Bloodletting

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Eating tobacco and half boiled cabbage

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Induced vomiting

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Movement of air or wind throughout the body. Restoring proper flow of the wind throughout various methods

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Acupuncture

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Sexually transmitted disease cause by a bacterial microorganisms entering the brain .

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Syphilis

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Invented the germ theory of disease

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Louis Pasteur

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Identification of the specific bacterial microorganism that caused syphilis

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Germ theory of disease

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According to _____causes of insanity were always physical. Mentally ill patient should be treated as physically ill.

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John P. Grey

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Discovered the electric shock and brain surgery

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Benjamin Franklin

36
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One of the founding fathers of modern psychiatry.

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Emil Kraepelin

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