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HSCI-E175 Mind in Modernity: History of Psychology & Psychiatry. Instructor: Susan Lanzoni, Ph.D. Psychological Sciences as:.
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HSCI-E175Mind in Modernity: History of Psychology & Psychiatry Instructor: Susan Lanzoni, Ph.D.
Psychological Sciences as: “techniques for the disciplining of human difference: individualizing humans through classifying then calibrating their capacities and conducts, inscribing and recording their attributes and deficiencies, managing and utilizing their individuality and variability.” Nikolas Rose, Inventing Ourselves (1998) p. 105
Aristotelian Souls: • nutritive soul (possessed by plants) • sensitive soul (animals) • rational soul (possessed exclusively by humans)
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC- 380 BC) “ON THE SACRED DISEASE”
SANGUINE (blood) LYMPHATIC (phlegm) NERVOUS (black bile) BILIOUS (yellow bile)
PHLEGMATIC SANGUINE CHOLERIC MELANCHOLIC
THEMES in the History of Psychology/Psychiatry 1) representations of mind 2) places where science is enacted or practiced 3) methods, tools and technologies 4) popular appeal 5) experiential aspects 6) practical and moral implications
Phrenological Heads Diagram from W. Mattieu Williams, A Vindication of Phrenology. London, 1894. Taken from http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology/images.html
Cortical thickness differences in autism Hadjikhani et al. Cerebral Cortex 2005 Nouchine Hadjikhani MartinosSCAN 2007
AREAS LARGER IN AUTISM: Yellow: radiate white matter—absolutely AND relatively larger; accounts for most of brain enlargement. Blue: absolutely but not relatively larger in autism.. Graphical representation of non-uniform growth patterns in autistic brain The brain on the right highlights Factor 2 above, which is relatively smaller in autism. Courtesy of: Martha R. Herbert, M.D., Ph.D. Pediatric Neurology--MGH/MIT/HMS