psychopathology
HISTORY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY:-
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes (nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and treatment. The study of mental illness and its corresponding abnormal behavior is commonly referred to as psychopathology or abnormal psychology. This type of study and treatment focuses on clinical therapy as a way of not only determining precipitating factors that indicate the presence or onset of a disorder, but the types and amount of treatment needed to alleviate or possibly cure the condition (Alloy, Riskind, & Manos, 2004).
HISTORY:
Throughout history abnormal behavior and the presence of mental illness has commonly been looked down on and prejudiced by society. Many deeply religious cultures believed that people became mentally ill when they were possessed by demons and often took drastic measures to exercise these demons from an individual. Other historical societies would cast out the mentally ill and ban them from living among the rest of the community. This later evolved into the creation of mental asylums, but many of these early structures were feared or stereotyped and sometimes took crude measures in an attempt to understand and treat patients (Karotana, 2006). With all this in mind, it is no wonder that even with our current technological and medical advances that society and the individuals within it are hesitant to seek help for mental disorders. Some of the earliest theorists such as Hippocrates suggested alternate causes for disorders such as neurological disease. He was also one of the first to observe what are now clinically proven disorders such as alcoholism and addiction, epilepsy, and stroke Butcher, Mineka, Fooley, 2010).
EARLY DEMONOLOGY:- Demonology is the systematic study of demons or beliefs about demons. It is
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY:-
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological, psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes (nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and treatment. The study of mental illness and its corresponding abnormal behavior is commonly referred to as psychopathology or abnormal psychology. This type of study and treatment focuses on clinical therapy as a way of not only determining precipitating factors that indicate the presence or onset of a disorder, but the types and amount of treatment needed to alleviate or possibly cure the condition (Alloy, Riskind, & Manos, 2004).
HISTORY:
Throughout history abnormal behavior and the presence of mental illness has commonly been looked down on and prejudiced by society. Many deeply religious cultures believed that people became mentally ill when they were possessed by demons and often took drastic measures to exercise these demons from an individual. Other historical societies would cast out the mentally ill and ban them from living among the rest of the community. This later evolved into the creation of mental asylums, but many of these early structures were feared or stereotyped and sometimes took crude measures in an attempt to understand and treat patients (Karotana, 2006). With all this in mind, it is no wonder that even with our current technological and medical advances that society and the individuals within it are hesitant to seek help for mental disorders. Some of the earliest theorists such as Hippocrates suggested alternate causes for disorders such as neurological disease. He was also one of the first to observe what are now clinically proven disorders such as alcoholism and addiction, epilepsy, and stroke Butcher, Mineka, Fooley, 2010).
EARLY DEMONOLOGY:- Demonology is the systematic study of demons or beliefs about demons. It is