Timeline of Abnormal Psychology, Thesis of Financial Accounting

Download Timeline of Abnormal Psychology and more Thesis Financial Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! Timeline of Abnormal Psychology PSY/410 03:10:20 GMT -05:00 Timeline of the Development of Abnormal Psychology (3000-2000 B.C.): Early cases of mental disorders were considered supernatural; the behavior was often thought to have come from a demon or god who had taken possession of the person. (460-377 B.C.): Hippocrates and Plato deem mental disorders to be the result of biological and psychological factors rather than supernatural causes. (5th-15th century): Mental illness was linked to demonic possession and treated through exorcisms and religious rituals. 16th century: Society began using asylums to confine mentally ill individuals controlling them rather than treating them. 18th century: Philippe Pinel introduced a moral human treatment of mentally ill people in France. Late 18th-19th century: Scientists like Emil Kraepelin & Wilhelm Griesinger advocate for the study of mental disorders causing psychiatry to emerge as a distinct field of study. Late 19th-early 20th century: Sigmund Freud develops psychoanalysis seeking to answer the question of how psychologically based mental disorders develop. Early 20th century: John B. Watson changed the focus of psychology to the study of overt behavior called behaviorism. Mid-20th century: Biological viewpoints gain notoriety with the innovation of psychotropic medications as well as with the developments in neuroscience. 03:10:20 GMT -05:00