Psychopathology History

Question 1

What is the study of psychopathology?

Answer 1

The study of mental disorders trying to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes

Question 2

Ancient Greece & Rome Origin of the word psychopathology

Answer 2

Psyche = soul/mind
Patho = suffering
Logos = the study of

Question 3

Hippocrates origin of psychopathology

Answer 3

madness = imbalance in one of the four humours

Question 4

Why and How did they treat an imbalance in the 4 bodily humours?

Answer 4

If one humour was low, the rest needed to decrease by dieting, blood lettings, etc.

Question 5

Which pandemic revolutionized mental health treatment in the Middle Ages?

Answer 5

Black Plague

Question 6

What were the results of the black plague’s effects on mental health treatment?

Answer 6

1. medicine treatment turned religious treatment
2. monasteries became mental treatment centers/poorhouses (aka Lunatic asylums) for the poor and mentally ill

Question 7

What was the course of treatment at the lunatic asylums?

Answer 7

chaining, torture, execution (Witch Trials)

Question 8

What did Dorthea Dix do for the mentally ill? What was the downfall?

Answer 8

-She campaigned for mental ill awareness
-opened 32 psychiatric hospitals
-asylums were taken over by physicians to experiment on patients

Question 9

Phillippe Pinel & Quaker William Tuke version of mental treatment centers

Answer 9

-moral treatment = family style setting
-patients completed chores

Question 10

What did Emil Kraepelin do for Schizophrenia?

Answer 10

1. distinguished “Dimentia Praecox” (SZ) from the affective psychoses
2. his Compendium der Psychiatrie is the forerunner for today’s DSM5

Question 11

How do we assess mental illness?

Answer 11

1. patient report
2. behavioral observation
3. clinical judgment

Question 12

What is the current assessment model?
What are treatment aspects?

Answer 12

Symptom assessment & treatment
1. medication
2. psychotherapy
3. hospitalization

Symptom-Based Diagnosis and Treatment

Question 13

What are the four aspects of all diagnostic criteria?

Answer 13

1. symptoms
2. duration
3. frequency
4. severity

Question 14

What is NOS and its current name?
What does it mean?
What is an example?

Answer 14

Not otherwise specified aka
Provisional Diagnosis
currently called Unspecified Disorder
Used when there’s a strong presumption that full criteria will be met.
Depressed patient cannot give a full history of symptoms.