Ch 1 Flashcards
What are the 4 Characteristics of Stigma
1) distinguishing label is applied
2) label is linked to deviant/undesirable attributes by society
3) people with the label are seen as essentially different
4) people with label are discriminated against
4 Characteristics of a mental disorder
- occurs w/in individual
- causes personal distress or disability
- not a culturally specific reaction to an event
- not primarily a result of social deviance or conflict w/society
how did Hippocrates think of mental disorders?
that they were related to the brain
What were Hippocrate’s classifications of mental disorders
- mania
- melancholia
- phrenitis
phrenitis
brain fever
what caused melancholia
too much black bile
How did monks treat the mentally ill?
- prayed over them
- touched with relics
- made them drink potions in the waning phase of the moon
what pope was reponsible for witch panic
Innocent VIII
Malleus Maleficarum
guide to witchhunting
who is the father of American psychiatry
Benjamin Rush
Philippe Pinel
primary figure in movement for humanitarian treatment of people with mental illness in asylums
moral treatment
pt had close contact w/attendants who gave them meaningful activities to participate in
Dorothea Dix
activist for improved conditions for people with mental illness. helped see that state hospitals were built
Francis Galton
orginator of genetic research with twins, also founder of eugenics movement in the US
Dr. Cerletti and Bini
came up with ECT