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Catchment Area: certain geographical region
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Community Mental Health Centers Act: 1963 construction of mental health centers in communities throughout the US
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Deinstitutionalization: release of large numbers of mentally ill persons into the community
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Demonical Exorcisms: religious ceremonies where patients are physically punished to drive awary the evil possessing spirit
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Electroconvulsive Therapy: ECT passing of electricity through the head
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Health Illness Continuum: behaviors relating to health existing over a broad spectrum
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Hill-Burton Act: funded construction of psychiatric units throughout the US in 1937
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Humoral Theory: overabundance or lack of 1 or more humors (air, fire, water, earth) resulting in illness
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Insulin Therapy: used for schizophrenia to induce a 50 hour coma
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Lobotomy: surgical procedure severing frontal lobes of the brain from the thalamus
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Lunacy: disorder caused by a lunar body
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Mental Health: ability to cope w/and adjust to recurrent stresses living an acceptable way
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Mental Illness Disorder: disturbance in ability to cope effectively
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Mentally Ill: behaviors that interfere w/daily activities, impar judgement or alter reality
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National Institute of Mental Health: 1949 organized to provide research and training related to mental illness
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National Mental Health Act: 1946 funding for programs in research and training related to mental illness
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Psychoanalysis: founded by Sigmund Freud, study of spychology of human behavior, therapy for disorders investigating workings of the mind\
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Psychotherapeutic Drugs: chemicals that affect the mind
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Trephining: cutting holes in a skull to encourage evil spirits to leave