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AP Psychology

AP Psychology. Units 12 & 13 Abnormality and the Treatment of Psychological Disorders. History of Psychopathology. most explanations have focused on psychological or biological factors. Early Demonology.

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AP Psychology

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  1. AP Psychology Units 12 & 13 Abnormality and the Treatment of Psychological Disorders

  2. History of Psychopathology • most explanations have focused on psychological or biological factors

  3. Early Demonology • during various periods of history people suffering from mental illnesses were seen as being possessed by evil spirits

  4. Early Demonology • exorcism was used to attempt to draw out these spirits by rituals, torture, flagellation starvation or drowning

  5. Early Demonology A priest driving out the devil.

  6. Greek and Roman Times • Hippocrates was one of the first scientist to propose a biological theory of abnormality • while he was a keen observer, his physiology was crude

  7. The Middle Ages: Return of Demonology • During the Dark Ages possession by the devil became the primary explanation of abnormal behavior

  8. The Middle Ages: Return of Demonology • While the Catholic Church often took a role in caring for the ill, it also searched out what they called instruments of the devil

  9. The Middle Ages: Return of Demonology • Many of those accused of witchcraft may well have been suffering from various mental illnesses

  10. The Renaissance • asylums were established to care and confine the mentally ill • St Mary’s of Bethlehem (Bedlam) was established in London • It was characterized by chaotic conditions and it become a tourist attraction in the 19th Century

  11. Bedlam

  12. The Reform Movement • Pinel, a Frence doctor during the French Revolution, freed patients and treated them humanely • Argued that the mentally ill be treated with compassion, dignity and care

  13. The 19th Century • despite the example of Pinel, most institutions were characterized by inhumane treatments that included the bleeding of patients and treatments like the drowning machine

  14. The 19th Century

  15. The 20th Century • Developments in medicine, saw a return to biological explanations of abnormal behavior • This approach became know as the medical model of abnormality

  16. The 20th Century • The discovery of various drugs that reduced abnormal behavior revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill by the 1960s Lithium used for the treatment of depression

  17. Psychological Explanations • The 20th Century also saw the development of various psychological theories of mental illness • Freud developed the talking cure and believed that the cathartic release of emotions was therapeutic

  18. Psychological Explanations Freud’s couch

  19. Contemporary Perspective Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective • dysfunctional behavior is now seen as a complex interaction between biological predispositions or pathology that combine with various social and cultural factors

  20. Sources • www: theawakeningsproject.org/ This website is devoted to the art work of artists suffering from mental illness.

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