Renaissance (1490-1541)

 Renaissance (1490-1541) • Paracelsus (Swiss doc)- psychic or mental causes – Treatment: bodily magne=sm (hypnosis) • Asylums –originally just removed people from population but not much treatment – Led to overcrowding and inhumane treatment

 

 Renaissance A rebirth of natural and scientificc approaches to health and human behavior occurred at the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance. Once again, physicians focused on bodily functioning and medical treatments. In addition, Paracelsus (1490–1541), a Swiss physician, introduced the notion of psychic or mental causes for abnormal behavior and proposed a treatment initially referred to as bodily magnetism and later called hypnosis. Another new approach to treating mental disorders during the Renaissance involved special institutions known as asylums. Asylums were places set aside for people with mental disorder. Unfortunately, asylums were originally created simply to remove people with mental disorder from the general population because they were not able to care for themselves. As such, early asylums did not provide much treatment, and living conditions for residents were usually poor

 

 

What the Renaissance means?

rebirth

Renaissance is a French word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom.Aug 12, 2022

 

Psychic =>relating to the soul or mind.