ANT220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Bone Density, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emic And Etic
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Ideas about mendelain inheritance used to look at mental illness. Advocates tried to improve the human species by preventing the undesirable form reproducing. In the 1950s, appearance of first true antipsychotic medications lent support to the notion that major mental illnesses could be regarded as resulting fro(cid:373) a (cid:862)(cid:272)he(cid:373)i(cid:272)al i(cid:373)(cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) In 1960s, major mental illnesses sucg as schizophrenia were infliuences in some by way by genetic inheritance. In 1970s, neuroscience studies show that mental illnesses exists as a biological phenomenon. The current medical model for the definitions & diagnostic deatures of mental illness is repreented in the diagnostic & statistical manual of medicine (dsm-iv) Created by several health professionals to develop a consensus statement on the diagnosis of mental illnesses from mild to severe. Defines mental health and physical illness in terms of of the levels of disability and distress suffered by the individual: loss of freedom is important to specify with mental illness****
