How has the historical landscape of psychotherapy shaped how mental health services are seen by the public today? Identify historical influences and what affect they have had on treating children in the current mental health sector.
How has the historical landscape of psychotherapy shaped how mental health services are seen by the public today? Identify historical influences and what affect they have had on treating children in the current mental health sector.
As a discipline, Psychotherapy emerged with the ideas of Sigmund Freud. He was the first to theorize the unconscious basis of some behavioural disorders and his work was carried forward and adapted by theorists like Alfred Adler and Carl Jung. Until then psychological disorders were seen as the manifestation of supernatural entities such as demons and spirits.
Such an orientation towards psychological disorders emerged from the fact that analysis and diagnosis of psychological ailments could not be grounded solely in the body (medical science). Since the spirit was the domain of religion and mysticism, psychological disorders were associated with the devil of divinity. This association is what made early psychology an eclectic discipline. Practitioners like Franz Anton Mesmer, Phineas Quimby and the phrenological explorations of Franz Joseph Gall all hint at Psychology as a discipline that explored the undesirable. This is the troublesome background upon which Sigmund Freud shone his torch to illuminate the unconscious processes of the mind.
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