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History of Abnormal Psychology2016 09 23

Learning Objectives

• Historical conceptions of defining, understanding, and treating psychopathology

• Fluid nature of psychopathology

• Specific details regarding conceptualizations 

• Philosophical underpinnings of current diagnostic streams

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Hippocrates

• 1. Black Bile  ‐‐‐‐ Depression

• 2. Yellow Bile ‐‐‐‐ Tension/Anxiety

• 3. Phlegm  ‐‐‐‐ Dull, Sluggishness

• 4.  Blood ‐‐‐‐ Mania/Mood Swings

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Cover of the seventh Cologneedition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 . It reads "MALLEUS MALEFICARUM, Maleficas, & earum hæresim, ut phramea potentissima conterens"which means literally The Hammer of Witches, smashing the Witches and their heresies with a mighty spear.

Matthew Hopkins, England's Witch-Finder General, explains how to identify witches and their familiars.

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Two Dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the Inquisition for allegedly signing pacts with the Devil. From the Histoire veritable de quatre lacopins, Geneva, 1549.

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Watch this Youtube Video 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

The devil of tobacco "drinking." From William Hornby's The Scourge of Drunkennes, an anti-smoking pamphlet printed by G. Eld for Thomas Baylie, London, 1618.

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Paracelcus

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.Paracelsus

Paracelcus

• One category of loss of senses: • lunatics who through their own devices had fallen under the influence of the moon (lunacy), those who were insane from birth, due to careless and passionate sexual intercourse by the parents; witchcraft; and melancholy. Paracelsus also made it quite clear that spirits did not cause mental illness (Green, 2009). 

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Paracelcus

•Therapies that he recommended included bleeding (which he considered to be the main thrust of treatment for mania), essences of gold, silver, iron, mercury, lead, pearls, coral, antimony, sapphire and sulphur (all alchemical remedies), opium, mandrake, astrological shielding to prevent lunacy, and the use of charms to treat those afflicted by witchcraft

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Dr. Ian Cameron

• Discussed in text

• McUltra You Tube

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Alberta Insane Asylum, Ponoka 1911

British Columbia Public Hospital for the Insane, New Westminster 1878

British Columbia Mental Hospital, Coquitlam 1913

Manitoba Selkirk Asylum, Selkirk 1886

Home for Incurables, Portage-la-Prairie 1890

Brandon Asylum, Brandon 1891

New Brunswick Provincial Hospital, Saint John 1835

Provincial Lunatic Asylum 1848

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Hospital for Insane, Halifax 1857

Ontario Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto 1850

Kingston Asylum (Rockwood), Kingston 1856

London Asylum, London 1859

Orillia Asylum for Idiots, Orillia 1861

Hamilton Asylum, Hamilton 1876

Mimico Branch Asylum, Mimico 1890

Hospital for Insane, Brockville 1894

Cobourg Asylum 1902

Penetanguishene Asylum, Penetanguishene 1904

Whitby Hospital, Whitby 1914

Prince Edward Island The Prince Edward Island Hospital for the Insane 1877

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Quebec Quebec Lunatic Asylum, Beauport 1845

Provincial Lunatic Asylum, St. John’s 1861

L’Hospice St. Jean de Dieu, Longue Point 1856

L’Hospice St. Julien, St. Ferdinand d’Halifax 1873

L’Hospice Ste. Anne, Baie-St. Paul 1890

Protestant Hospital for the Insane, Verdun 1890

St. Benedict Joseph Asylum, near city of Montreal 1885

Saskatchewan The Saskatchewan Provincial Hospital, Battleford 1914

Newfoundland Asylum for the Insane, St. John’s 1855

Northwest Territory

Taken to asylums of Alberta and Saskatchewan 1914

Yukon Taken to New Westminster by Royal Northwest Mounted Police

1877

Chains, straitjacket, cell belt and covered bath tub (72 x 150 x 69 cm) for restraining raving patients, Burghölzli Hospital, Zurich.

Photo: Courtesy of The Museum of the History of Medicine of the University of Zurich

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Franz Antón Mesmer