University:
York University
Course:
HH/PSYC 3140 | Abnormal Psychology
Academic year:

2024
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111

Pages:

2
Author:

Nick T.

Biological Tradition • basic assumption: psychological disorders due to physical causes • infection: discovery of progressive "general paresis" caused by bacterium (Syphilis) -treatment: antibiotics • brain dysfunction causes psychological disorder non-Pharmacological biological treatments: psychosurgery: frontal lobotomy Shock therapy *ECT Case example: older man with Chronic depression. treated with > 100 rounds of ECT Pharmacotherapy: modem approach: psychiatry - basic assumption: psychological disorders caused by biochemical/neurochemical imbalances in the brain greek physician hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) albnormal behavior as a physical disease galen (129-198 A.D.) - extended hippocrates work. galenic hippocratic tradition humoral theory of mental illness related to body fluids too much or too little of a fluid resulted in mental illness • treatments included - regulating environment to balance humor - removing blood or fluids from body (leecnes) - induce vomiting The 19th Century • general paresis (Syphilis) and the -Several unusual psychological and behavioral Symptoms biological link with madness pasteur discovered the cause to be a bacterial microorganism led to penicillin as a successful treatment - bolstered the view that mental illness = = physical disease Consequences of the Biological Tradition. • mental illness = physical illness -hospitalization without treatment Emil Kraeplin (1852-1926) - little involvement in treatment - focused on diagnosis and Classification of various disorders The Psycnological Tradition psychosocial approaches of abnormal behavior focus on psychological, behavioral, Social, and Cultural factors early psychological models: Psychoanalytic theory humanistic theory - behavioral model Psychoanalytic Theory • Freudian theory of the structure and function of the mind • Structure of the mind - Id (pleasure principle; illogical, emotional, irrational) ego (reality principle; logical and rational) -Superego (moral principles; keeps id and ego in balance)