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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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)