CeCe Hollis Psy/410 Week 1 Timeline Eric Niler

Hippocrates (460-377 BC) Hippocrates believed that the mentally ill should be treated more kind. He believed that stress and trauma were the cause of the disorders from the get go. Originally, prisoners being mentally ill were starved, beaten and hooked to chains. Benjamin Rush (1812) Benjamin wrote the first American textbook on mental illnesses and also believed that mental illness was the product of individuals being stressed and having psychological stressors. Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845-1856) Dorothea, a nurse, helped create 32 mental hospitals all around the states, Europe and Japan. These hospitals were to help and protect patients that were mentally ill. Emil Krapelin (1900s) Founder of psychopharmacology,...