Week 2 Flashcards
1
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What happened on the Eve of the 20th C
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- Asylums overflowing
- Diverse theories and treatments
- Custodians over healers
- Facing public critique
- Non-medical interventions
2
Q
What did this spark?
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Desperation
- For new methods and cures
- For scientific legitimacy
3
Q
The Oganic School
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- Biological understandings of mental illness explained wider range of behaviours
- Hysteria (people betrayed by their bodies)
4
Q
Emil Krapelin
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- Articulated disorders as discrete diseases with symptoms and cause
- Symptoms were basis for diagnosis
- Considering illnesses as diseases (Step in medicalization)
5
Q
Heredity
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- Prompts criminality and mental illness
- Degeneracy proved concerns
- Rise of Eugenics
6
Q
Heroic Treatments
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Fevers, Comas and Shocks
7
Q
Fever Therapy
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- Wagner-Jauregg
- Treating psychotics with syphilis
- Injecting people with malaria to spike fevers
8
Q
Coma Therapy
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- Sakel
- Injecting people with schizophrenia with insulin to put patient into coma
9
Q
Shock Therapy
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- Meduna
- Schizophrenia and epilepsy treatment
- Inducing epileptic seizures through cariazol
10
Q
Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT)
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- Cerletti & Bini
- Use electrical stimuli to induce seizures
- Persists to this day
11
Q
Psychosurgery
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- Moniz
- Heard monkeys underwent changes after frontal lobe changes
- Moniz tried out drilling holes into patients heads and cutting away at frontal lobe with wire
12
Q
Why we study Heroic Treatments
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To view the desperation to find cures for overcrowded asylums and rapid increases in illness
13
Q
Legacies of Heroic Treatments
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- We need to understand something works before we do it
- What does success look like to us?
- Will a treatment work on every patient?
- Understanding of power imbalances and ethics
14
Q
Psychopharmaceutical Revolution
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- Major tranquilizer being first antipsychotic
- Chlorpromazine: miracle drug, dealing people better than heroic treats.
- Chlorpromazine sparked search for other chemical treatments
15
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Pharmaceuticalisation
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- Drug treatment has grown
- Upswing in meds to manage widening dimensions of mental health
- Drugs used to “mange lifestyle” rather than alleviate deficits
- Leading to intense medicalization
