CLP 3144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grey Matter, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: CLP 3144
• Professor: K E N S W A N

Document Summary

Mental illnesses are social constructions of our culture that often lead to over diagnosis and abuse of treatment for individuals who need help and those who don"t actually need help. Szasz, my discussion will give support in there being no such thing as mental illness, rather a myth. Szasz claimed that labeling a child is stigmatization rather than diagnosis, and rather than treating the patient you are poisoning them! Szasz made a valid point that mental illnesses are not a thing" or physical object and hence it can. Exist" only (szasz, 113) in theoretical concepts. When mental symptoms are discussed they are communicated in a way where a person is either diagnosing himself, or having a physician diagnosis" him/her. This alludes to the overall concept of mental diagnosis as misleading and variant as the determining factor is very subjective. The language of cultures determines different factors that contribute to diagnosis.