Abnormal psychology

William Turke

-English Quaker who brought similar reforms to Northern England. -In 1796 he founded the York Retreat, a rural estate where about 30 mental patients lived as guests in quiet country houses and were treated with a combination of rest, talk, prayer, and manual work

melancholia

-condition marked by unshakable sadness. - an excess of black bile is the source of this condition.

mania

-state of frenzied activity -an excess of yellow bile causes this condition

Hippocrates

-taught that illnesses had natural causes. -He saw abnormal behavior as a disease arising from internal physical problems. -believed that some form of brain pathology was the culprit and that it resulted—like all other forms of disease, in his view—from an imbalance of four fluids, or humors, that flowed through the body: 1.yellow bile 2.black bile 3.blood 4.phlegm

asylum

A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most ___________ became virtual prisons.

humors

According to the Greeks and Romans, bodily chemicals that influence mental and physical functioning.

Trephination

An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.

Henry VIII

Bethlehem Hospital was given to the city of London by ___________ for the sole purpose of confining the mentally ill.

Philippe Pinel

He argued that the patients were sick people whose illnesses should be treated with sympathy and kindness rather than chains and beatings

lycanthropy

a condition in which people believed themselves to be possessed by wolves and imitated their behavior

the middle ages

abnormal behavior increased greatly during this period.

melancholia

characterized by extreme sadness and immobility.

Tarantism (Saint Vitus' dance)

groups of people would suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into convulsions. convinced that they had been bitten and possessed by a wolf spider, now called a tarantula, and they sought to cure their disorder by performing a dance called a tarantella.

Gheel

was the forerunner of today's community mental health programs.

chaotic uproar

what does Bedlam mean?

priest

what is a shaman?

Hallucinations and melancholia

what was trephination used to treat?

Hippocrates

who is the father of modern medicine?