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Hi all, we are the Mad Movement Group, this is our presentation on power analysis within the mental health realm. Everyone will have access to this blog in order to review the information we have gathered. Feel free to post your own comments and opinions under a section you desire. The goal of this blog is to get your thoughts rolling around on power analysis in madness. Enjoy!

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)

The debate around the DSM-V and the politics behind it...
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- Swedha E

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  • The first depiction of mental illness dates back to 3000B.C with a description of the syndrome of senile dementia attributed to Egyptian prince Ptah-hotep
  • Sumerian and Egyptian references to melancholy where found as early as 2600 B.C
  • The oldest known attempt to systemically classify presentations of mental illness in the 1400BC. System of medicine in ancient India known as the Ayur-Veda. In this system, disorders were grouped based on seven kinds of demonic possessions
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) was the first to place psychiatric conditions wholly within the secular and naturalistic domain of medicine.
  • He identified six conditions based on the observed phenomenology of mental disorders. These were:
  1. Phrenitis (acute mental disturbance with fever)
  2. Mania ( acute mental disturbance with out fever)
  3. Melancholia (all kinds of chronic mental disturbances)
  4. Epilepsy (same as current meaning)
  5. Hysteria (paroxysmic dyspnea, pain convulsion)
  6. Scythian disease (compared to transvestitism)
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