Abnormal Psychology Module One

Trephining

cutting holes in the skull to “release” evil spirits

Paracelsus

a swiss physician who suggested that mental health problems are affected by pull of the moon and the stars

Hippocrates

father of early medicine, emergence of more scientific viewpoint, believed that there were four humors and that an over-abundance of any led to behavior, believed dreams were important, hysteria was specific to women

16th century

resurgence of scientific questioning, asylums became storage places for mentally ill, deplorable conditions, mental institutions grew rapidly

Late 18th-19th century

Europe took notice of conditions

Moral management

acknowledging social, individual, and occupational needs

Dorthea Dix

campaigned for improved treatment and national humane standards

Mesmerism

magnetic forces causing mental illness, hypnosis to fix this

The Nancy School

Hysteria is self-hypnosis, seen as the first recognition of psychologically caused mental disorder

Sigmund Freud

psychoanalysis, theory of the unconscious mind

Wilhem Wundt

established the first psych lab in Germany, “Father of modern day psychology”, studied memory and sensation

Ivan Pavlov

classical conditioning

John Watson

behaviorism

B.F. Skinner

Operant conditioning

Elements of abnormality

deviancy, distress, dysfunction