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Understanding Psychopathology and Treatment by Alex Gasnas is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes the history of ideas around psychopathology and mental illness. It discusses how unusual or disturbing behaviors were once thought of as demonic possession and treated by practices like trepanning or housing people in insane asylums. It then outlines the development of understanding mental illness as biological diseases of the brain and early attempts at treatments like lobotomies, which are now seen as misguided. The document cautions that current understandings may also be revised
- Author
- Alex Gasnas
- Language
- EN