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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
09/16/2012

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Term
Criteria for abnormality
Definition
1. deviance: infrequent-outside the norm
2. distress: intense unpleasant emotions
3. disability: maladaptiveness- low functionality
4. lack of control
5. Observer discomfort
Term
early causes for mental illness
Definition
demon possession
phases of the moon (lunatic)
Term
trephining
Definition
drilling a hole in the skull to let a demon escape.
Term
Hippocrates and the 4 humors
Definition
black bile- melancholic
yellow bile- choleric
blood- sanguine (moody)
phlem- phlegmatic (slow)
Term
Early asylum treatment methods
Definition
the crib
spinning chair
Term
Early American Asylums
Definition
Mclean hospital (boston, 1811)
The friends asylum for the use of persons deprived of their reason (philadelphia, 1813)
Term
Phillipe Pinel (1745-1826)
Definition
French pioneer, progesssive for the time. 1. no cruelty 2. get detailed case history 3. promote work/relationships
Term
William Tuke
Definition
York Retreat, small # of patients, pastoral settings
Term
Moral Practices
Definition
aka moral therapy, moral treatment, movement away from asylums
Term
Benjamin Rush (1745- 1813)
Definition
Father of AMerican psychiatry, thought disorder were due to too much blood. also thought being frightened was therapeutic.
Known for wanting to be humane, but did a lot of bleeding and used the tranquilizing chair.
Term
Dorthea Dix (1802- 1887)
Definition
social reformer wanting to create state hospitals (40 in the US). Conceptually statred out like york retreats but regressed into more asylum like conditions due to too many patients.
Term
Emil Kraepelin
Definition
devised a diagnostic system between ppl with:
-manic depressive psychosis: fluxuate between ok and not
- dementia praecox: no ups and downs
believed that disorders were of the body and the brain (same biological focus we use today)
Term
Jean Charcot
Definition
saw many cases of hysteria. hysterical blindess, deafness, blindness, and paralysis
Term
hysterical neurosis
Definition
during a hypnotic trance you could put someone into or out of a hysterical state. indicating a psychogenic direction
Term
Deinstitutionalization
Definition
current trend in the US.
-hospitals peaked in the 1950's: better drugs, community health centers were supposed to take off but never did.
-60's to 80's very steep decline
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