Test 1 Flashcards
Trephination
Earliest surgical procedure.
Hole in skull.
Treat insanity, epilepsy, headache and drive spirits out
Asclepius
Temple for healing
Hippocrates
Mental illness of melancholy
Postpartum psychosis
Phobias
Humoral theory
Humoral theory
personalities based off the four humors. phlegm, black bile, yellow bile and blood
plato
childhood experiences shape adult behaviors
aristotle
genetic inheritance
middle ages
age of faith-christ
the renaissance 15/16th centuries
witch hunts–deviant behavior–mostly sexual because insanity caused by being possessed by the devil when they copulated with her
malleus maleficorum
witchhunter’s bible writen by two german monks. consisted of 3 parts.
- articles supporting their existance
- how to identify and find them
- what to do with them once found
17th century
if mad people behvaed like animals they would be treated like one.
treatments included fear, torture, chains
-private madhouses
fetters
chains/restraints used for mentally ill in 17th century
18th century
asylums-New Bethlehem (Bedlam)
1st, 2nd, 3rd revolution
1: hospitalization 2: moral managment 3. society copperation and interaction
1st revolution-hospitalization
“lunatics” possessed by the devil: mania and melancholy
caused by full moon at time of babys birth or baby sleeping under the light of a full moon
treatment during 1st revolution-hospitalization
required to go induce or reduce cathartic events through ice baths, bleeding, shocks, eels, vomiting, induction of fevers
benjamin rush
father of american psychiatry
“observations and inquiries upon diseases of the mind” = first psychiatric textbook -1812
benjamin rush inventions
the gyrator: increasing circulation for melancholy
the tranquilizer chair: manic patients