The History Of Mental Health Flashcards
What is meant by supernatural theories for mental health?
Where mental illness is blamed on possession by evil or demonic spirits, the displeasure of Gods, eclipsed, planetary gravitation, curses and sin
What is meant by somatogenic theory’s for mental illness?
They blame disturbances in physical functioning resulting from either illness, genetic inheritance, or brain damage or imbalance
What is meant by physchogenic theory’s for mental illness?
They focus on traumatic or stressful experiences, maladaptive learning associations and Cognitions or distorted perceptions
What is trepanation?
Where doctors drill a hole in the side of a mentally ill persons head to let out demons or entities possessing them which are causing their mental illness
What is meant by unbalanced humours?
Greek doctors believed that mental illness is due to the excess of one of the four natural bodily fluids. Black Bile Blood Yellow bile Phlegm
What are the four definitions of abnormality?
Statistical infrequency
Deviation from social norms
Failure to function adequately
Deviation from ideal mental health
What are the two systems for categorising mental disorders?
ICD
DSM
What was Rosenhans aim?
To test the hypothesis that psychiatrists cannot reliably tell the difference between people who are sane and insane
Was the first experiment in Rosenhans study a field or a laboratory experiment?
Field
Describe Rosenhans study
Then pseudo patients faked symptoms of schizophrenia to see if the psychiatrists were able to correctly diagnose them
What was the procedure for the second experiment?
Staff at a hospital were told that there was going to be a pseudo patient admitted in the hospital. Their job was to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 on who they think was the pseudo patient
How was the pseudo patients experience in the hospital in experiment 1
- all patients disliked their experiences and all wanted to leave immediately
- non of the pseudo patients were detected as being fake and all but one patient was admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
- normal behaviours were often seen as aspects of their supposed illness. Eg, writing
How was powerlessness and depersonalisation shown during the experiment
Many patients were deprived of many human rights such as freedom of movement and privacy.
Medical records were open to all staff
Many of the toilets didn’t have doors
Give an example of an anxiety disorder
With a definition
A phobia
An irrational fear of a specific object or situation that substantially interferes with a persons ability to function
Give an example of a psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia