Ancient Views
Religiously inspired treatment procedure designed to drive out evil spirits or forces from a "possessed" person.
What is exorcism?
Places dedicated solely to care of people with
mental illness—were first established in 16th century to remove
troublesome individuals from the community
What are asylums?
The movement that advocated treatment focused on hospitalized patients’ physical well-being
What was the Mental Hygiene Movement?
Process of moving individuals with mental illnesses or disabilities from institutional care to community-based settings, often resulting in inadequate support systems, homelessness, and lack of access to necessary care for many individuals.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
Sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic
What are the four humors/temperance?
A movement emphasizing human interests and concerns
What is Humanism?
Law that required every county to provide asylum to “paupers and lunatics”
What is the Country Asylums Act (England, 1845)?
Name two methods Freud used to access the unconscious mind?
What are Free Association and Dream Analysis?
(May also accept psychoanalysis)
Wrote works attributing mental disorders to organ pathologies
Who is Chung Ching?
A New Englander who championed the poor and “forgotten” people of prisons and other facilities for the mentally ill
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Wide-ranging method of treatment focusing on patients’ social, individual and occupational needs and moral/spiritual development
What is moral management?
After talking freely about their problems under
hypnosis, patients usually felt a significant
emotional release known as...
What is catharsis?
His biggest contribution was his description of consciousness
Who is Plato?
Founder of modern psychopathology
Who is Johann Weyer?
He removed chains from mental patients. One of the first to treat patients as people.
Who is Philippe Pinel?
He established the first experimental psychology lab at the University of Leipzig
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The first mental hospital established in 792 was established in this place.
What is Bagdad?
Swiss physician and early critic of superstitious beliefs about demonic possession.
Who is Paracelsus?
First American to organize a course in psychiatry. Wrote the United States’s first systematic treatise on psychiatry, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon Diseases of the Mind.
Who is Benjamin Rush (1745–1813)?
Name at least 3 of the 4 major advances in the 19th and 20th century.
What are:
Biological Advances
Classification of mental disorders
Scientifically informed views about the causes of abnormal behavior
Experimental Psychology
(May also accept proliferation of scientific journals)