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History of Psychological Treatment

History of Psychological Treatment. Jennifer Carstens. Ancient treatments. Most of treatments began with the belief that the affected person had an evil sprit in them, which was making them act abnormally. The cure was to rid the spirits from the person’s body by means of trephination.

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History of Psychological Treatment

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  1. History of Psychological Treatment Jennifer Carstens

  2. Ancient treatments • Most of treatments began with the belief that the affected person had an evil sprit in them, which was making them act abnormally. • The cure was to rid the spirits from the person’s body by means of trephination.

  3. Trephination • Cutting into a person’s skull, typically done to people to experience extremely abnormal behavior (hearing voices, hallucinations, etc)

  4. Greek & Roman Treatments500 BC- 500 AD • Greeks and Romans identified many psychological disorders such as melancholia, mania, dementia, hysteria, delusion, and hallucinations. • Focus was placed on the “Four Fluids”, Blood, yellow bile, black bile, and Phlegm.

  5. Middle Ages500 AD- 1350 AD • The middle ages were classified as a time in extreme expansion of spiritualism and urbanization, but a contraction of science and medicine. • Mental illnesses were seen as a struggle between “good” and “bad” • The Dark Ages received its name from ongoing plagues and war, which led to mass madness. • Tarantism, Lycanthropy, and Exorcism were common during this time.

  6. Tarantism • A condition where groups of people would start singing, convulsing, dancing, and rip off their clothing.

  7. Lycanthropy • A condition where people believe that they are an animal and begin acting as such (howling, barking, pawing, etc) • Some people would even claim that they could feel course hair growing from all over their body.

  8. Exorcism • An act where a member of the clergy tries to get a demon out of someone who is believed to be possessed. • This is typically done by beating, starvation, repetitive bible readings, and prayer. • Done in all major religions.

  9. The Renaissance and Asylum1400 AD - 1700 AD • Characterized as a time of extreme cultural and scientific growth, and a decline of religious influence. • Rise of Asylums and specializations in mental health care. • Johann Weyer- first physician to specialize in illnesses of the mind. • First religious mental health facility- Gheel Belgium • First medical mental Asylum- Bethlehem Hospital, Spain.

  10. Johann Weyer • Believed that the mind was susceptible to illness, just like the body. • First physician to specialize in the treatment of the mentally ill. • His most influential work is De PraestigiisDaemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis(On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons) published in 1563 • One of the only to speak out against persecution.

  11. Gheel 1661 • One of the foremost important places for mental health (loving, humane approach). • Classified as a community asylum, that was supported by the church and community. • Fell due to lack of interest.

  12. Bethlehem Hospital Early 15th century, Spain. • In this asylum, patients were bound in chains. • During certain phases of the moon, patients would be lined up and whipped in order to prevent violence. • The hospital became a tourist attraction, where people would pay to look at the howling and gibbering imamates • Lunatics' Towers, Vienna • La Bicetra in Paris

  13. Lunatics' Towers in Vienna

  14. La Bicetra in Paris • Continues to be a hospital

  15. Types of Treatment Used in Asylums Rotating Chair- Placing someone in a chair, where they were spun around multiple times till they became sick. Shock treatments- throwing someone in ice cold water in order to “shock” their body. Crib- Patients in asylums were forced to stay in enclosed “cribs”.

  16. 1800’s- A Time for Reform • Benjamin Rush, Dorothea Dix, and Nellie Bly were major reformers for Mental health. • Few hospitals were being built, the already built mental institutions were overcrowded. • America became more interested in mental health care, and health care reform. • Mental illness began to be seen as genetic diseases

  17. Benjamin Rush “Father of American Psychiatry” • Pioneered several medical tools, such as a centrifuge. • Pioneered Occupational Therapy as well as a moral theory when dealing with the ill. • Discovered Savant Syndrome

  18. Dorothea Dix • Lobbied on behalf of the mentally insane • Created Legislation for the first established state mental asylums

  19. Nellie Bly • Actual name: Elizabeth Jane Cochran • Checked herself into a boardinghouse, where she pretended to have amnesia and have hallucinations, then was taken to a courtroom. • Upon examination, doctors said she was a lost cause “Undoubtedly insane”, and sent her to Bellevue Hospital Center where she experienced living conditions first hand. • She was released after 10 days and wrote, 10 Days in a Mad-house, which launched a federal investigation

  20. 1900’s • The 1900’s were a time for revolutions in Hospitalization, Moral Management, as well as Society Cooperation & Interaction. • Early treatments included: lobotomies and primitive forms of electroshock therapy

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