Lecture 2 --Principles of Explanation

• Explaining Pathology - Historical Examples

a. Animism - Spiritual

b. Greeks and Hysteria - "Biological"

• Current, "Scientific" Paradigms

a. The Mind-Body Problem

------Matter over Mind? (e.g. paresis, biological model)

------Mind over Matter? (e.g. psychosocial dwarfism, psych. model)

• The Problem of Reductionism
• Case Example
• Importance of Multi-causal, Integrative Explanatory Thinking

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