Answer to Question #258185 in Psychology for bunny

Question

Describe the biomedical perspective towards treating psychopathology which became available during the twentieth century.

Answer 1

Psychotherapy emerges. Generally, private refuges offered the medicines that were famous around then. In the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years, most doctors held a substantial perspective on psychological sickness. Attitudes and views toward psychopathology in the medical and larger social community have undergone drastic transformation throughout history, at times succeeding through a rather twisting course, to eventually receive validation and scientific attention. Departing from an unsophisticated view centered on supernatural causes, modern theories in the early 20th century began to recognize mental disorders as unique disease entities and two main theories of psychodynamics and behaviorism emerged as potential explanations for their causes.

The prevailing views of early recorded history posited that mental illness was the product of supernatural forces and demonic possession, and this often led to primitive treatment practices such as trepanning in an effort to release the offending spirit. It was not until the late 19th and early 20th centuries that modern theories of psychopathology began to emerge. With theoretical outlines and a classification system in place, the study and treatment of mental illness began to expand significantly in the mid-20th century.