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abnormal psyc terms
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CHAPTER 1 · Personal and cultural points of view come into conflict to cause abnormal behavior. · Myth of mental illness: notion that rather than reflecting mental illness, abnormal behavior is simply different or wrong or a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation. · Theorists believe that abnormal behavior is due to something wrong with society. · It was originally believed that abnormal behavior was caused by evil or the devil. · Look at diagram attached. (1.1) · Trephination: a procedure in which holes are dilled in the skull; thought to be used by Stone Age people to release the evil spirits that cause abnormal behavior · Exorcism: a treatment for mental illness that involves driving out the devil or evil spirits thought to cause disorder. · Hippocrates: an early Greek physician who proposed that abnormal behaviors resulted from the imbalance of humors (fluids) in the body. · Humors: fluids in the body, whose imbalance was thought by early Greeks to cause abnormal behavior. · Asylums: institutions developed primarily during the Age of Enlightenment in which the mentally ill could take refuge. · Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem: the first hospital specifically for the mentally ill-London · Philippe Pinel: a physician who began improving the conditions and care of mentally ill patients. · William Tuke: an English Quaker who founded a retreat for the mentally ill. · Benjamin Rush: a physician who introduced humane care of mental patients in the United States. Involved bleeding patients, mental illness was due to excessive blood to the brain. · Dorothea Dix: A New England school teacher who waged an active campaign to build mental hospitals in the U.S. · Moral Treatment: one of the first psychological treatments to be used for mental patients; it involved providing better living conditions for patients and treating them as normal individuals. · Franz Mesmer: a French Physician who believed that disorders were due to imbalances of magnetic fluids and who is considered to be the father of hypnosis. · Mesmerism: the original term for hypnosis · Jean-Martin Charcot: A French physician who thought that illnesses were due to a weak nervous system and treated them with hypnosis. · Hysterical disorders: physical disorders for which a physical cause cannot be found.
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