HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antipsychotic, Fairy, Psychiatric Medication

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2G03
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

We became more mentally ill, more sick or insane. 20th c. , growth in size and importance of disciplines relating to mental and emotional phenomena. Social world interwoven with the knowledge of these disciplines, changes how we understand human beings and society. These disciplines trying to understand the mind, our affective relationship with the world, emotions, moods, thoughts, behaviours. Mental health concerns now central to everyday life, with 20-50% of population receiving a diagnosis: large shift. These shifts ha(cid:448)e (cid:862)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat it is to (cid:271)e hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) As a result, deviance became something that required immediate, and sometimes drastic attention: suddenly, lower test scores, poor behaviour, lack of listening, etc. , become reasons for intervention. Me(cid:374)tal health"s greatest (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: helped shatter the 19th c. obsession with biology. Or a fatal blow: for those who believe strongly that mental health has a strong biological basis, he upsets the order of things, disrupts research.