Historical views of mental illness
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- Created on: 18-03-21 11:12
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- Historical views of mental illness
- Ancient world cultures
- Mental health was the result of supernatural phenomena e.g. demonic possession, sorcery and the evil eye
- treated with 'trephine' (chipping a hole) in the skull where evil spirits would be released
- Egyptians recommend 'recreational activities' to release symptoms
- Ancient Greece
- Hippocrates, first scientific approach
- body consists of 4 humours- blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile
- if all the humours are balanced then we are mentally healthy
- excess of black bile=depression
- more humane treatments, of mind-body relationships. Pleasant surroundings, exercise and diet
- some unpleasant treatments e.g. bleeding and purging
- The Middle Ages-
- idea of 4 humours was still around
- 'madness' was demonic. Women with such illnesses were deemed witches
- Asylums began to appear using 'medical' treatments such as purging and bleeding
- 18th Century
- Asylums were run for profit, treatment was poor and barbaric
- Madhouse Act 1774, introduced to licensing and inspection
- Bethlem Royal hospital, famous asylum
- 20th Century
- finding that mental symptoms could have physical cause
- medical model of mental illness
- the development of effective drugs and changing social attitudes and revolutionised care
- mental illnesses can be psychological
- as well as biological
- finding that mental symptoms could have physical cause
- Ancient world cultures
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