History of Abnormal Psychology

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Discussion Section #2

Abnormality: It is Not a New Phenomena

Goal:

Learn milestones (key events and figures) in the history of abnormal psychology

Procedure:

• Review Timeline

• Act out an audio tour

Act out an Audio Tour?

• Review timeline• Divide into small groups • Each group will receive scripts for their

time period. • You will have a few minutes to review and

practice your scripts• Final product: “act out” entire tour (eg.

everyone listens to room 1 as they act out their script

Tasks for Each Group(Allotted time: 10 minutes)

• Review and practice script for your era

• Identify the visuals (power point slides)

• Select individuals to read specific parts

• Select someone to operate slides with pictures

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Tour the Museum(Allotted time: 35 minutes)

• Room 1- 4 presents their materials

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 1: Stone Age

• Mental disorders treated by trephination

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 1: Early Civilizations (430-377 BC)

• Greeks and Romans

• Hipprocrates (humors, hysteria)

• Demonological explanations and treatments

• Pope Innocent and the Malleus Maleficarum (1486-1669)

Demonic Views held over from Middle Ages

• America’s witch hunt ((1692)

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 1: Middle Ages (about 500-1400’s)

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 2: Renaissance (about 1400-1700)

Rise of the Asylums

• Bethlehem hospital

• Williamsburg Virginia: first mental hospital

Weyer

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 2: Room 19th Century: Reform and Moral

Treatment

Therapeutic Reforms: Moral Therapy

• Pinel

• Tuke

• Rush

Legislative Reforms

• Dix

Abbreviated TimelineRoom 3: 1850 to 1900: Biological and

Psychological Perspectives

Biological• Kraepelin publishes

psychiatry textbook• General paresis

linked to physical cause

Psychological• Hypnotism• Mesmer• Breuer• Charcot• Freud

Abbreviated Timeline:Room 4: Post 1900

Biological Perspective• John Grey• Development of

medications and shock treatment

Psychological Perspectives

• Humanistic Theories (Jung, Adler, Maslow, Rogers)

• Behavioral Theories (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner)

Stone Age:Treatment by Trephination

PopeInnocent IV

JohnanWyer

King Henry VIII

William Tuke

Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix’s presentation toCongress

Emil Kraepelin

Friedrich Mesmer

Mesmerism

Hollywood depiction of mesmerism

Jean Charcot

Charcot,an advocate for hynosis

Sigmund Freud

Freud’s Office

Freud:Ready for aclient

ManfredSakel

CarlJung

AlfredAdler

AbrahamMaslow

Carl Rogers

Humanistic Psychotherapy

IvanPavlov

J.B. Watson

BF.Skinner