HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Biological Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry, Lobotomy
27 Nov 2016
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Sixties attacks on authorities, rise of counterculture. Medical model becomes language psychiatrists start to use (used to be psychological model) Madness and civilization (1961) system embraced science: mental illness is a socio-cultural construction of 18th century, enlightenment period - west europeans threw off church and. Those labeled as being mentally ill did not fit into system labeled as mentally ill in psychiatric hospitals (refused to participate in new way of life) Argued biological psychiatry had no understanding of physical pathology, contravened conventions of medicine (basic ethics/rules of medicine: no science behind what they are doing/saying. A sane response to insane situations: ex. Fundamental problem with brain of schizophrenics and write: behaving strangely but having rational response to unreasonable situation the world is unreasonable. Notion that psychotic symptoms were attempts to communicate mental illness a cathartic experience. Psychiatrist must (cid:498)decode(cid:499) message them off as being irrational if you really listen and don"t take words.
