HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Biological Psychiatry, Uses Of English Verb Forms, Anti-Psychiatry
28 Nov 2017
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Mental health and illness: critical perspectives of psychiatry (lecture notes) Mental illness a socio-cultural construction of 18th century enlightenment (a massive scientific revolution). Part of this has to do with medicine, with the belief that medicine can solve these abnormal behaviours. Psychiatrists locking up unreasonables who didn"t fit into new social system. Identifies all sorts of people that were considered deviant . What it means to be mentally ill is that someone deviated from the roles of society. Growing state authoritarianism- confinement to stamp out deviancy. Argued biological psychiatry had no understanding of physical pathology, contravened conventions of medicine. Suggests that psychiatrist were acting without thinking, in doing so, were going againts the rules of medicine. A sane response to insane situations. (ex, someone who suffers hallucinations should be understood, not simply written off) doesn"t believe that the person themselves is crazy. Notion that psychosis symptoms were attempts to communicate- mental illness a cathartic experience.
