HISTORY OF MENTAL HEALTH

IN ANCIENT
TIMES, MENTAL
ILLNESSES
REFLECTED A
SUPERNATURAL
ORIGIN, CURED
BY RELIGIOUS
PROCEDURES.
 The evolution of mental
health
IN THE 4TH The attribution of
CENTURY AC: organic causes to
the origin and
THE GREEKS AND pathological state
ROMANS appears for the first
THEY CHANGED time in History.
THIS (Hippocrates)
 GRECO-R OM A NO

• IN ROME A HUMAN TREATMENT

WAS DISPENSED SUCH AS
HYDROTHERAPY, CATHARSIS
FOLLOWING THE SAME LINE AS
THE GREEKS.
• SOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPENED
WITH ARABIC CULTURE, IN
WHICH HE STANDOUT FOR HIS
STUDIES.

h
 INQUISITION
During the Middle A super
Ages and the natural character ,
Renaissance there prioritizing the
was a setback. character, which lasted
demonological
until the 16th century .
XV II .
Resorting to
isolation or at
extremes to the
bonfire
 During the S.
XVII
• Tendency to protect They seem to be the first
and protect the specialized centers
mental patients in Spain in the 14th
century. Confinement of
them in different types of
nursing homes or
hospitals .
 The end of the century XVIII
and early
XIX
• The era of • Not only the chains were
" TREATMENT continually present , but
also the guillotine.
MORAL "
 At the end of the century
XIX and early XX
• the creation and • when the nursing
development of mental profession emerges,
and/or psychiatric especially " 4cle--.
Nursing
hospitals begins 9
Psychiatric. AE u
 in Germany in 1836.
• First nursing school • This school was visited by
inaugurated Florence N I GH TI NGA L
E , before inaugurating
the St. Thomas Hospital
School in London .
 In 1880
• The first School of
Psychiatric Nursing in • Graduated two or
America emerges more later the first
90 nurses
specializing in
psychiatry.
At the end of the
The functions were custodial ,
mechanical and
especially directed by
P siqui a tras.
The nurse only administered
 medication and supervised some
therapies .
• There were nursing staff
in several mental hospitals.
• Duringthe first quarter
•
relationships appear.
new
of this century, Generated
theories of functions for
interpersonal and Psychiatric Nursing ,
emotional since since then it
 participates and
intervenes in
• Communitytreatment
• Familiar
• And as a group.
 PSYCHI A T R I A
• Psychiatry or psychiatry with psychology, which is
the study of the science
is the branch of medicine of behavior.
that specializes in the
treatment and
investigation of mental
problems from a
physiological point of
view.
• It is frequently confused
CONCEPT OF PSYCHIATRY
N
• The psychology
OF THE GR I EGO
PSYCHE: TO L MA
AND
I A T R ÉI A : C U R AT I O
• It is the branch of
medicine that specializes in
the prevention , evaluation,
diagnosis, treatment and
rehabilitation of mental
disorders .
 Its
objective
• Itis the relief of
mental
suffering
associated with
mental health
disorders.
Its action can take adopts a medical

According to different
models
place in a hospital (
hospital psychiatry), in model to deal with
primary care mental disorders,
usually considering
(outpatient psychiatry)
both biological and
or in the community psychological ,
(community socio/cultural and
psychiatry). anthropological
• Psychiatry usually factors and currently
the spiritual area .
• For its part, it frequently adopts the
indication of psychotropic drugs, but
also the indication of psychotherapy in
various forms, which can be carried
out by the same doctor if he or she
has the appropriate training.
 Differentiates a psychiatrist from a
psychologist
• Psychiatry, being a psychology, a discipline
that studies human mind
medical discipline, has as
its fundamental element and behavior from a
the making of a diagnosis, rspecti va
which implies the ability
It is frequently confused with
to distinguish
diseases .
basically (although not
only) not bad .
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