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Abnormal Psych Exam 1--History
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/17/2012

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normal
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everyone doing it, acceptable
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abnormal
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morally unacetable, different
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abnormal behavior
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psychological dysfuntion associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not typical
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historical approaches-has always existed
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psychopathology
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Supernatural tradition
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deviant behavior = good vs. evil
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supernatural causes
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demonic possesion, witchcraft, and movment of moon and stars
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supernatural treatments
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exorcism, surgery, punishment
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middle ages
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causes of illness: possession
treatment: prayer, exorcism, ect.
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witchcraft
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-cause: witches volluntaryily working with devil
-diagnosis: burning
-primarily women accused, poor, unmarried, and disobediant
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reform movement
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-horrible conditions in institutions, lead to moral therapy
-people treated well, showed improvement
-normalized treatment of mentally ill
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Hippocrates
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-pyschological disorder as physical disease
-4 humors (phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, and blood)
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Galen
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-discovered arteries carry blood (not air)
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Galenic-Hippocratic tradition
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linked abnormality with brain chemical imbalances
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psychoanalytic theory
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-Freud: long thought treatment-not physical
-emerged from moral therapy and hypnosis
-conflict with blocked emotions--talk therapy--restored phyiscal funtioning
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1st major psychological theory of psychopathology
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modern psychodynamic theory-pick apart what someone says and tells them what they are thinking
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Ego Psychology
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-Anna Freud
-how conscious mind deals with interpersonal stresses
-how conscious responds to unconsiose
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Object Relations Theory
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-Klien, Kernberg, and Kohul
-importance of early life experiences, how well you interlize figures, defense mechanisms
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attachement theory
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-Bowlby
-focused on relationship betwen child and mother-more biological
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interpersonal theory
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-sullivan
-person defined by relationships with other people
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cognitive psychology
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-Beck
-observable things
-focused on conscious thoughts and motivations
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biological tradition
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-mental illness=physical illness
-treatment became standard
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biological treatment
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insulin
electric shock (ECT)
brain surgery
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1950's
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-medications increasingly available
-pill was given and then you were sent away
-over reliance on medication
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perspective we use today
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biopsychosocial
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