psychopathology
Psych 103 (Psychopathology)
4/1/14
lifetime prevelance of mental illness throughout life- 46% females are twice as likely to be diagnosed throughout the ages
18-24 critical ages to be diagnosed biracial- more likely to suffer severe mental disorders neuropsychiatritic- takes off 28.47 years same as CVAD-
*shift- primary doctors are now prescribing medicine for general mental disorders. more complex ones are still left for the psychiatrists.
neuroanatomists- what goes wrong mentally
4/3/14
trephining- holes cut in sides of skull. many anthropologists think the trephen holes were created in an effort to let spirits escape with the holes. people lived after the holes were drilled... bone growths alongside.
early views of psychopathology-400 BCE humoral theory hippocrates melancholic choleric phlegmatic sanguine each of the four humors were thought to have a different effect on the body and personality as shown on this page from a medieval illuminated manuscript.
melancholic- sad sanguine person- stem word comes from blood. cheerful person. too much blood in the system is over cheerful or manic. phlegmatic- excess of phlegm.
demonic possession- middle ages the plagues, inquisition, fungus causing hallucinations -chaos women were looked as the cause for illness and bad things witches were almost always women men acting badly were possessed by women. pope innocent the eighth issued a diagnostic for witches. ironically could be viewed as first mental health diagnostic. ways to diagnose ‘devil possession’ of women. if you drown you were innocent- float you were guilty. treating witches exorcism- priest would perform something to free the devil out of the person. psychiatrists today are ‘descendents’ of the priests as now they’re the ones taking care of the mentally ill. mental illness as evolutionary regression. under the evolution pre darwin, everything below white british male was inferior. scientific racism- whites
4/1/14
lifetime prevelance of mental illness throughout life- 46% females are twice as likely to be diagnosed throughout the ages
18-24 critical ages to be diagnosed biracial- more likely to suffer severe mental disorders neuropsychiatritic- takes off 28.47 years same as CVAD-
*shift- primary doctors are now prescribing medicine for general mental disorders. more complex ones are still left for the psychiatrists.
neuroanatomists- what goes wrong mentally
4/3/14
trephining- holes cut in sides of skull. many anthropologists think the trephen holes were created in an effort to let spirits escape with the holes. people lived after the holes were drilled... bone growths alongside.
early views of psychopathology-400 BCE humoral theory hippocrates melancholic choleric phlegmatic sanguine each of the four humors were thought to have a different effect on the body and personality as shown on this page from a medieval illuminated manuscript.
melancholic- sad sanguine person- stem word comes from blood. cheerful person. too much blood in the system is over cheerful or manic. phlegmatic- excess of phlegm.
demonic possession- middle ages the plagues, inquisition, fungus causing hallucinations -chaos women were looked as the cause for illness and bad things witches were almost always women men acting badly were possessed by women. pope innocent the eighth issued a diagnostic for witches. ironically could be viewed as first mental health diagnostic. ways to diagnose ‘devil possession’ of women. if you drown you were innocent- float you were guilty. treating witches exorcism- priest would perform something to free the devil out of the person. psychiatrists today are ‘descendents’ of the priests as now they’re the ones taking care of the mentally ill. mental illness as evolutionary regression. under the evolution pre darwin, everything below white british male was inferior. scientific racism- whites