Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Frameworks

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A model abt how a subject should be viewed.

Provides a viewing framework, vocab, and research recipe

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Paradigms

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Theory/Metaphor to explain AB by possession of some spirit

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Demonology

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Practice of expelling demons from things they possess

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Exorcism

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These people believed AB were sicknesses like physical. And advocated medical approaches to treatment of AB

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Hippocrates

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Strongly influenced by work of Hippocrates. AB was caused by imbalances of important bodily fluids. The four humors

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Galen

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Yellow bile,
Black bile,
Blood, and Phlegm

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The Four Humors (Galen)

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Middle Ages Episodes of mass madness in which ppl danced in the streets. Also known as Tarantism and St Vitus’ Dance

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Dance Manias

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Believed witches were mentally disturbed and needed care and treatment. 1515-1588

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Johann Weyer

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Denied role of demons producing mental disorders. in The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584)
1538-1599

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Reginald Scott

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Argued mental disease are similar in kind to physical diseases
1576-1660

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St. Vincent de Paul

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In the 18th and 19th centuries when ppl began improving care of the mentally disturbed

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Humanitarian Reforms

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Reformer in United States (1802-1887)

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Dorothea Dix

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BASED ON belief that AB have origin in biological malfunction transmitted through heredity,
or caused by disease, injury, or biochemical brain disturbance

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The Organic View

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Proposed that humans and animals worked much like machines

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Philosopher Rene Descartes

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How are humans different from purely mechanistic animals? (Descartes)

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Humans have a soul and can work voluntarily

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The separation of the mind and body

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Dualism

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What led to the scientific exploration of the mechanisms of the physical body?

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The paradigm of Dualism

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This person Created a classification system that continues to influence psychiatric thinking.
Combined Symptom Complexes into two major Syntheses: Manic-depressive psychosis and Dementia Praecox

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Emil Kraepelin (The Organic View)

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Patterns of symptoms that showed a similar onset, course and outcome

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Symptom Complexes

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Excited, Elated Reactions

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Mainia

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Which View Cause & Cure of AB could proceed more rationally if investigated as organic diseases?

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The Organic View

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The view that psychological events, like ideas, emotions, experiences and beliefs might cause AB

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The Psychological View

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Uncontrolled Laughter, weeping, etc. Altered states of consciousness. W/ changeable bodily symptoms that have no IDENTIFIABLE Organic Basis

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Hysteria (The Psychological View)

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Animal experiments on how behavior was affected by experience

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Animal Learning

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This person did a series of experiments to understand the nature of the "psychic" reflex.

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Ivan Pavlov

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A stimulus that is naturally capable of eliciting the unconditioned response

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(US) Unconditioned Stimulus

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A response that occurs naturally or innately to an unconditioned stimulus

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(UR) Unconditioned Response

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An originally neutral stimulus that becomes capable of eliciting a conditioned response after repeated pairing w/ an unconditioned stimulus

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(CS) Conditioned Stimulus

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A response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus after repeated pairing w/ an unconditioned stimulus

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(CR) Conditioned Response

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A behavior followed by a pleasurable consequence is more likely to be repeated. W/ a bad consequence its less likely. Also known as Instrumental Learning or Operant Conditioning.

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The Law of Effect

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Who formulated the law of effect?

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Edward Thorndike