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The term is derived from the Sicilian pizzu ('beak'). To "let someone wet their beak" ( Sicilian language fari vagnari u pizzu ) is to pay protection money. The practice used to be widespread in Southern Italy , [ citation needed ] not only by the Sicilian Cosa Nostra but also by the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Campania .
Psychohistory is a social science that analyzes human behavior by combining psychology, history, and other social sciences, while also being a amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. [1] Its proponents claim to examine the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual ...
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
Wets and dries are British political terms that refer to opposing factions within the Conservative Party.The terms originated in the 1980s during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher: those who opposed some of Thatcher's more hard-line policies were often referred to by their opponents as "wets"; in response, supporters of Thatcher were referred to as "dries".
c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
This is one of the most influential psycholexical studies in the history of trait psychology. [4] Not only was it the longest, most exhaustive list of personality-descriptive words at the time, [ 4 ] it was also one of the earliest attempts at classifying English-language terms with the use of psychological principles.
Mesopotamian doctors kept detailed record of their patients' hallucinations and assigned spiritual meanings to them. [6] A patient who hallucinated that he was seeing a dog was predicted to die; [6] whereas, if he saw a gazelle, he would recover. [6] The royal family of Elam was notorious for its members frequently being insane. [6]
The idea of a "group mind" or "mob behavior" was first put forward by 19th-century social psychologists Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon.Herd behavior in human societies has also been studied by Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter, whose book Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War is a classic in the field of social psychology.