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Abnormal Psych
Exam 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
09/25/2008

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Thomas Szasz
Definition
What society views as abnormal is really just "problems in living" Societies invent the concept of "mental illness" to control and change people who's unusual patterns threaten social order.
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William Tuke
Definition
Took reforms for moral treatment to Northern England. Founded York Retreat.
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jerome Frank
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Essential Features of Therapy
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Feature 1
Definition
A sufferer who seeks relief from a healer.
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Feature 2
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A healer who is trained.
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Feature 3
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A series of contacks between healer and suffereer in which the htealer tries to produce change.
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Dorothea Dix
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Established 32 state hospitals and responsible for bringing issues or moral treatment to political and government lvl.
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Hippocrates
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Founder of Modern Medicine. Believed in humors. Too much yellow bile = mania and too much black bile = melencholia
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William Pinel
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Argued that sick people should be treated with kindness not beating and chains
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Jean Esquirol
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Pinels student and succesor. Established hospitals on principles of moral treatment
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Four D's of Abnormality
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Deviance, distress, Dysfunction, Danger
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Downs Syndrome vs Prader-Willi
Definition
21st chromosome vs 15th chromosome
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PKU
Definition
Born normal poisoned by phenylalanine they can't break down
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Tay-Sachs
Definition
Eastern European Jews, lose mental function, vision, and motor ability over 2-4 years. Eventually die.
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1st Asylum
Definition
Bedlam
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