1. Abnormal Psychology Second Canadian Edition
Gerald C. Davison
John M. Neale
Kirk R. Blankstein
Gordon L. Flett
Prepared by: Traci McFarlane

2. Introduction: Definitional and Historical Considerations
Chapter 1
Introduction:
Definitional and Historical Considerations

3. What is Abnormal Behaviour?
Statistical infrequency

4. What Is Abnormal Behaviour?
Violation of norms
Personal distress
Disability or dysfunction
Unexpectedness

5. What is Abnormal Behaviour?
“Because the field is continually evolving, it is not possible to offer a simple definition of abnormality that captures it in its entirety. The characteristics presented constitute a partial definition, but they are not equally applicable to every diagnosis.”
Davison, Neale, Blankstein, & Flett
Abnormal Psychology, Second Canadian Edition

6. The Mental Health Professions
Clinical psychologist
Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist
M.D.
Prescriptions
Psychoanalyst

7. The Mental Health Professions
Social worker
Counseling psychologist
Psychiatric nurse

8. History of Psychopathology
Early demonology
Demonology
Exorcism
Trepanning

9. History of Psychopathology
Somatogenesis
Somatogenesis versus psychogenesis
Hippocrates
Mania, melancholia, phrenitis
Four humours (i.e., blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm)

10. History of Psychopathology
Dark Ages and Demonology
Persecution of witches (Malleus Maleficarum)
Witchcraft and mental illness

11. History of Psychopathology
Development of asylums
Asylums
Bethlehem (Bedlam)
Benjamin Rush ( )
Moral treatment
Philippe Pinel ( )
Dorothy Dix ( )

12. Asylums in Canada 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
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13. Asylums in Canada 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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14. Asylums in Canada 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
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
Yukon
Taken to New Westminster by Royal Northwest Mounted Police
1877

15. The Beginning of Contemporary Thought
An early system of classification
Emil Kraepelin ( )
Syndrome (e.g., dementia praecox, manic-depressive psychosis)
General paresis and Syphilis
Pasteur’s germ theory
Psychogenesis

16. The Beginning of Contemporary Thought
Mesmer
Charcot
Breuer and the cathartic method
Anna O.

17. Lesson of History
Cycles of persecution, neglect and humanitarianism in the treatment of the mentally ill have occurred irrespective of the helping agency.
Periods in which people who exhibited psychologically disordered behaviour were persecuted and treated cruelly have often alternated with periods of humanitarian reform and care for suffering people.

18. Lesson of History
Just as we now look back on what were once accepted treatments with revulsion, future generations may regard some of our more recent and current practices as cruel and inhumane.
Recent reforms may easily be reversed during adverse economic, political, and social conditions.

19. The Mental Hospital in Canada
Medicare
Provincial psychiatric hospitals
Milieu therapy
Community treatment orders (CTOs)

20. Attitudes Toward People with Psychological Disorders
Stereotyping
Stigmatization
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)

21. Treatment and Prevention
Deinstitutionalization
Best practice methods
Evidence-based treatments
Help seeking
Community psychology
The Future: The Romanow Report

22. Copyright
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