The History of Psychological Disorder

The History of Psychological Disorders

Takeshia Augusta

Miller-Motte College

May 15, 2015

                Psychological Disorder is something that is big at this time and a lot of people have family members that have to deal with this and live with a disorder every day.  I have deal with it in my job I have work with special need kids and when I started work with them it gave me a hand on feel on how adults and kids have to deal with this disorders on a daily base. I have seen how this disorder can change the feeling of some people and make them act total different and really it is nothing that you can do but make sure that they take the meds that the doctors had gave them. Mental disorders is something thing that I wanted to learn more about and see what it is that could make a person end of with it. I want to know if a person was born this way or is it something that a person get if someone smokes, drinks or anything else and that is why I had to go back and research it and it starts back in 400 B.C

The history of mental disease panes back to the 400 B.C ages, back at that time Hippocrates. He Greek physician and was also now as Hippocratic Oath, he was the first physicians that looked into medical illness and other medical disease. Hippocrates believe that mental illness are to be treated like any other sickness. In 400 B.C it wasn’t a lot that this man could do but he did his best at trying to help people that had mental illness. He was the first to touch on the problem and try to come up with a treatment for it, but as time went on others try to do more thing to help people with mental disorders.

         That time came around the nineteenth century, that when the European came up with a new approach to teat mentally ill known as “Moral Management”. The belief was based on that the environment that played a big role in the treatment of mentally illness. It was thought that the recovery would work better if conditions and surroundings resembled a home feeling so that the person would feel more like that was at home and not a doctor office. Treatment also took a benign approach, Phrenology was introduced to the treatment. They studied the shape of the brain to explain illnesses and render diagnosis. The first big movement of mentally illness came after the Civil War, when a lot of servicemen suffered from postwar trauma. The servicemen was passed on to a mental hospital, asylums to try to get treatment on what was going on with them.  Along with trying to get treatment it became a time when it was hard to try and find placement for those suffering from mental illnesses, so around the country a lot of asylums began to open up. Thomas Story Kirkbride was a designer of an asylums at the time and became well known for his popular architectural ideas. With the aid from the state and federal money the community of Athens adopted the Kirkbride Plan and constructed their own mental asylum. The doors opened in January of 1874, the name of the asylums was “Athens Asylum for the Insane”.