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History of Clinical Psychology
People & Theory
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
01/23/2011

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Leightner Witmer
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founded first psychological clinic at uPenn in 1896, thought psychology could be taken out of lab and applied to people after an incident where he helped a student with spelling problems. First journal.
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Hippocrates
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Hypothesized that psychopathology originated from an imbalance of one or more of 4 fluids: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
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Phrenitis
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Ancient greek term for high fever and "talking jibberish"
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3 Levels of Soul- Plato
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logistikon- resides in head and is responsible for logic and reason
thumos- residing in chest, responsible for courage and aspirations
Alogistikon- residing in stomach and responsible for appetites and instincts
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Medieval Europe
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Emphasized religion and dualism, so psychology kinda got put on the backburner for a while
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Benjamin Rush
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"Psychiatry" and inclusion of psychopathology in the medical model. Bled patients. Chained patients.
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Phillipe Pinel
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Psychiatrist (french) with a heart, Moral Treatment Movement
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William Tuke
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moral treatment movement (england)
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Dorothea Dix
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Moral treatment movement in the US, campaigns for government funding of treatment facilities and asylums
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Four precursors to clinical psychology
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1. Understanding of mental disorders
2. Measurement of individual differences (psychometric origin)
3. Emergence of Scientific Psychiatry
4. Emergence of psychological determinism
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Sir Frances Galton
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father of psychometrics, author of Hereditary Genius, eugenicist
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James Cattell
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developed precursors to standardized tests
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Emil Kraeplin
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Scientific psychiatrist, described dementia praecox (pretty much Schizophrenia), differentiated and categorized disorders of endogenous and exogenous cause, differentiated dementia praecox and manic-depressive illness
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Charcot
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pioneer in hypnotism, examined hysterics while hypnotized, noted that hysterics were usually upper class young women moved craziness in to the medical model
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Janet
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noted from files of Charcot's patients that most patients had experienced "emotional shock" prior to the onset of hysteria, and patients did not have recall of this while not under hypnosis. UH-OH REPRESSION..
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Alfred Binet
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Interested in psych as a helping profession to children, comissioned to design a test to identify children that would benefit from + assistance, precursor to intelligence test (Binet-Simon)
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Robert Yerkes
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Army alpha, army beta, psychometrics & assessment on 1.7 million potential recruits
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Lewis Terman
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Revised the Binet-Simon scale and made it the Stanford-Binet
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Empirical Roots of Psychology
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Psychometric origins, Cattel, Binet, Rosarch, Thematic Apperception, MMPI, Galton
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John B. Watson
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father of american behaviorism, scientific study of observable actions, impact of environment and learning on people
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Weschler-Bellvue
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Intelligence test WAIS
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Miami Beach Conference
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Ecouraged exploration of alternatives-Psy.D.
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Salt Lake Conference
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Acknowledged the legitimacy of Psy.D. and said research training was important for all psychologists.
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Carl Rogers
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Client-Centered Therapy
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Client Centered Therapy
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Self-actualization, achievement of potential, unconditional positive regard, elimination of conditions of worth
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Joseph Wolpe
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Behavior therapy, reciprocal inhibitions, systematic desensitization
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BF Skinner
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operant conditioning
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Criticisms of Behavior Therapy
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too focused on here-and-now without adressing distal or root causes
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Rational Emotive Therapy (and creator)
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Albert Ellis, argues that a patient can be educated about his/her beliefs logically and how they affect their behavior.
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Cognitive Therapy (and creator)
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Aaron Beck-- rationally challenges client's irrational beliefs, develop experiments w/clients to test beliefs. Empathic questioning
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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blend of rational emotive and cognitive. used most.
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Hysteria
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crazy young women
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Neuroses
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craziness with reality intact
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Psychosis
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craziness with loss of reality
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Primary processes (psychoanalysis)
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wishful thinking that does not differentiate between fantasy and reality
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Secondary processes
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like ego, rationality, managing fantasy mediating reality
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psychic determinism
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belief that unconscious processes rule humans
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Alfred Adler
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the family is the prototype for all adult interactions.
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Adler's Self Concept
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sense of who one is
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Adler's Self-ideal
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the idea of who one should be
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Adler's world-concept
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the sense of what the natural and social world demands
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Adler's ethical convictions
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sense of what is right and wrong
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Karen Horney
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doctor, basic anxiety, moving toward, against, or away from others.
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Harry Stack Sullivan
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interpersonal theory and reflected appraisals
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Sullivan's Reflected appraisals
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the way other people treat you is how you will appraise yourself
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