Health Sciences 3624A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Emotion, Neurology, Mental Disorder
1 Apr 2020
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Abolishing the concept of mental illness: chapter 3 - mental and bodily causes of. The word mental in the term mental illness is used with the intention to defer away from physical illness. The current idea of woe relating to a cause in an individual"s body or mind cannot be traced easily through history. Things were possibly regarded as mental as opposed to material. The distinction between mind and body is even present in questioning whether animals can have a mental state. Some theorists feel that interactions b/w animals are just based on que"s in response to concrete behaviour. For thousands of years, humanity was not seen as existing within a separate body and mind. Concepts associated with mind and body are found in mytho-philosophical schemes. They have long assumed that cultures could be interpreted based on language. Ancient greeks sought to find answers to metaphysical questions. The word for soul came from the word breath.
