Psychology 357 - Hist of Psychiatry

Spring
2015
01
4.00
Lisa Raskin
W 02:00PM-04:30PM
Amherst College
PSYC-357-01-1415S
MCLS 230
laraskin@amherst.edu

Though the history of madness is as old as humanity, the field of psychiatry has come of age over the past 300 years. The understanding and treatment of mental illness within the psychiatric profession has drawn upon neurological and medical, as well as psychological and psychodynamic points of view. An emerging field, Neuropsychoanalysis, attempts to integrate the two. This course will survey psychiatry’s evolution, with special emphasis on the major contributions that have changed perspectives and directions in psychiatric medicine. We will also review the history of how mentally-ill patients have been housed, from custodial asylums to de-institutionalization and community-based programs, as a reflection of changing attitudes towards mental disease. Seminar. One class meeting per week.


Requisite: PSYC 212 and 228, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 15 students.  Spring semester.  Professor Raskin.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.