HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brad Lewis, Biomedical Model, Drapetomania
5 Oct 2016
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Who states it as a major contributor global burden of disease. Insomnia, lost of concentration (all the physical symptoms that accompany depression) Arts and humanities are good at making psychic difficulties and psychic differences. Even when we decide to call depression a disease, it"s a metaphorical understanding of what depression is. Story: emphasis of the events (x y) Plot: emphasis of the causality ( x y) because of z. A kind of metaphor (because we"re understanding it as a comparison) Stock characters (very common, typical) they"ve been drained of their individuality: they"re disenchanted". The depression memoir as therapeutic (recovery) tool: memoir is a first person autobiography of the speaker"s past - recollection, memoirs are great examples of illness narratives, downside of memoirs: Biomedical model: good to understand one"s own disease. Psychoanalytic model: comparison to understand depression as a kind of outcome/expression of ongoing childhood traumas.
