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| Documents with links to: A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind, James Cowles Prichard, 1835 ... ... https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-insanity-and-other-disorders-affecting-the-mind-james-cowles-prichard-1835ad.htm |
| 1: | Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD
Egyptians wrote a book of medicine. It is likely a copy of a much older book, but it is quite fascinating to realize just how much the ancients knew about the human body and various diseases. While the cures were no better than a witches brew with "eye of newt", they did understand the various diseases. The only reference to anything coming close to psychiatry is in the section on the heart where anger and sadness are discussed. Biopsychiatrists love to quote the papyrus as proof that the Egyptians believed depression was caused by bodily diseases. But this is simply untrue. In fact the opposite is true. The Egyptians understood that anger and sadness caused body diseases in the heart. The papyrus reads: "When his Heart is afflicted and has tasted sadness, behold his Heart is closed in and darkness is in his body because of anger which is eating up his Heart." (The Egyptian Medical Ebers Papyrus: 1550 BC) Jumping forward 3000 years... In 1558 AD, William Bullein stated that rejection ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm | Size: 332K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Criminals, rapists, murderers freed from jail by Psychiatrists ... ...Denying personal responsibility for sin.) Click to View Click to View Psychiatry damages society and individuals The mental health system causes harm to both individuals and society as a whole. Introduction: One of the great evils of our modern time, is that wicked sinners are escaping punishment for their crimes by being declared "not guilty by reason of insanity". This is the result of the growing influence of the psychiatry industry. It was not this way even 50 years ago since more and more sinners are getting away with murder. "When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant's competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts. Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length, and shall punctuate crucial elements of his testimony by stabbing the air ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-harms-damages-society-mental-insanity-plea-defense.htm | Size: 80K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Sin was viewed as the cause (etiology) of mental illness Christian Reil suggested that the Cat Piano was the cure for insanity. It worked by seating the insane in front of the Cat Piano, as someone played, sanity would be restored. Reil suggested this clever and imaginative hyperbole, in order to drive home his point, that insanity was a spiritual problem not a bodily problem. Doctors before the 19th century, knew less than a typical thirteen year old today, who dissected a few raccoons on his back yard picnic table and experimented with his chemistry set he got for Christmas! Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Introduction: The majority view of history for the cause of insanity, has always been sin and life choices, not the body. Here is the master summary of the historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Historically, there were three groups of etiologies for insanity: 1. Those who believed sin directly caused insanity. 2. Those who ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-causes-etiology-historic-pre-1858ad.htm | Size: 81K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind ... ... Prichard followed the classification of J. C. A. Heinroth (1773-1843), professor of psychological medicine at the University of Leipzig, who divided mental diseases into three classes according to the three divisions of mental faculties of philosophers, 'those of the feeling or sentiment, the understanding, and the will', and each further into states of exaltation or depression. These primary disorders could occur in pure or mixed forms. Because 'propensities . . . are so nearly allied to passions and emotions' Prichard combined 'disorders of affection or feeling' with 'those of the active powers or propensities' under one head to which he gave 'the designation of Moral Insanity'. As a synonymous `single compound epithet' he suggested Tathomania, in coincidence with the Monomania of M. Esquirol'. For states of excitement of the intellectual faculties he retained the terms monomania and mania, equivalent to partial and general insanity, and for their depression or loss 'Incoherency or ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-insanity-and-other-disorders-affecting-the-mind-james-cowles-prichard-1835ad.htm | Size: 24K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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