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The threat of trephination must have motivated many psychotic individuals to stay out of public view or to comply as nearly as possible with social expectations. , the Greek physician Hippocrates proposed the first rudimentary biomedical theory. He proposed that illnesses, including mental illnesses, resulted from imbalances in vital bodily fluids. His break with supernatural explanations resulted in more humane treatment of the mentally ill. Unfortunately, this trend proved to be abortive. By medieval times, theories of abnormality had reverted to demonology.

The bibliography is very extensive. William B. King See also: Abnormality; Agoraphobia and Panic Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Depression; Madness: Historical Concepts; Manic-Depressive Disorder; Psychoactive Drug Therapy; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia: High-Risk Children; Seasonal Affective Disorder. 21 Abnormality Cognitive Models Abnormality: Cognitive Models Type of psychology: Psychopathology Fields of study: Behavioral and cognitive models; cognitive processes; models of abnormality The cognitive perspective on psychopathology asserts that faulty thinking in the form of irrational or illogical thought processes leads to abnormal behavior; although the cognitive approach has been criticized for overlooking biological or genetic influences, it has led to effective treatments for anxiety and depression.

The process of changing the negative or illogical thought processes has been called cognitive restructuring. For example, Meichenbaum might say to a client, “Maybe you think you have no friends or that no one likes you, but that cannot be true, because you just named six people with whom you socialize regularly. ” Albert Ellis used a form of cognitive therapy he called rational-emotive therapy to accomplish the corrective process. Ellis used a technique called disputation to help a person replace damaging thoughts such as “I should always be perfect” or “Everyone must always love me” with more realistic ideas.

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