History Of Psych Flashcards
First psychiatric nursing textbook
Published in 1920
Nursing Mental Diseases by Harriet Bailey
drug used to treat mental illness
Psychotropic drugs(1950)
Psychotropic drugs ( anti- psychotic drugs)
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
Psychotropic drugs (ananic agent)i
Lithium
First American Psychiatric nurse
Linda Richards (1873)
Linda Richards graduated from?
New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston
Linda Richards believed that
“the mentally sick should be at least as well cared for as the physically sick
Period of scientific study and treatment for mental disorders began with?
Sigmund Freud(1856-1939)
Emil Kraepelin(1856-1926)
Eugene Bleuler(1957-1939)
Studied the mind, disorders and treatment
Sigmund Freud
Began classifying mental disorders according to their SYMPTOMS
Emil Kraepelin
Coined the term schizophrenia
Eugene Bleuler
A period of enlightenment concerning persons woth mental illness began
1790’s
Formulated the concept of ASYLUM
Phillippe Pinel in France
&
William Tukes In ENGLAND
Safe refuge or haven offering protection at institutions where people were whipped, beaten and starved just because they were mentally ill.
Asylum
refers to repeating certain actions to ward off anxiety without weighing the possible consequences of those action
Example
A husband gets angry with his wife and starts staying at work later.
Acting out
