ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Stone Age Trephination 430 - 377 B.C.
Hippocrates - brain pathology 150 A.D. Galen
- humors 500 - 1450 demonological
explanation 1547 Asylums 1693 Witch Hunts in
Salem MA 1793 - 1842 Pinel, Dix, Rush - Moral
treatment 1879 Wundt - 1st experimental Psy.
Lab 1883 Kraeplin - Biological
Model 1893 Freud 1896 Witmer 1st. Psy.
Clinic, U-Penn 1897 General Paresis -
syphillis 1901 Pavlov - Classical
conditioning 1913 Watson - Behaviorism
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1917 Nonmedical opiods - illegal in
U.S. 1921 Rorshach Test published 1935 Lobotomy
used for mental disorder 1937 Marijuana made
illegal in U.S. 1938 ECT started in
Rome 1938 Skinner - operant conditioning 1943 LS
D effects discovered 1949 Lithium 1951 Chlorprom
azine 1951 Rogers - Person Centered
Therapy 1952 DSM - I 1958 Wolpe - systematic
desensitization 1961 Szasz The Myth of Mental
Illness 1962 Ellis - RET (cognitive therapy)
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1963 Community Mental Health Act
(deinstitutionalization) 1965 Norepinephrine
and Serotonin theories of depression 1967 Beck
s cognitive theory of depression 1973 DSM
stops listing homosexuality as a mental
disorder 1973 Rosenthal On Being Sane in Insane
Places 1975 Endorphins discovered 1975 Suprem
e Court endorses patients right to adequate
treatment 1981 MRI used as diagnostic tool
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1987 Prozac 1990 Human genome project 1994 DSM
- IV 1998 Prozac sales 3 billion /
year 1999 Supreme Court - Right to treatment in
community 2000 New York- passes a law for
mandatory treatment for individuals with violent
history