A Brief History of Psychology

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A Brief History of Psychology

• Ancient Times (Prehistoric to Egypt)
• Possession
• Presentation (The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
• Exorcism
• Trephining

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The Greeks

• New focus on science and philosophy
• Hippocrates
• Balance of 4 Humors
• Treatments
• Remained in place roughly 700 years

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320 AD

• Constantine Arrives to Screw up the whole deal
• Rome and Christianity
• Christianity and Psychology
• Possession/Moral Decrepitude
• Exorcisms
• Holy Inquisition
• Malleus Maleficarum
• Burning

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Renaissance

• Decreased focus on possession
• Asylums
• Dark
• Dirty
• Poor nutrition
• Poor hygiene
• Beatings/restraints
• Psychopathy and monster myths
• Peter Stubb
• Elizabeth Bathory
• Vlad Dracula Tsepesh

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Enlightenment

• Increased emphasis on treating the patient
• Pinel
• Still didnt work well
• Mesmer
• Ramifications for modern psychology
• Charcot
• Hysteria
• Freud

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Why 1875 is a very good year

• James and Wundt
• Functionalists and Structuralists
• G. Stanley Hall and the APA (1892)

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The Medical Model

• What is it?
• Most dominant theoretical perspective today
• Origins?
• Only a philosophy
• Why popular?

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So what is Psychology, exactly

• Definition
• Psyche and Cupid
• 2 goals
• Understand behavior
• Practical application
• Which is it better at?