HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unconscious Mind, Involuntary Commitment, Deinstitutionalisation
12 Oct 2017
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Sixties attacks on authority, rise of counterculture. Mental illness a socio-cultural construction of 18th century enlightenment. Psychiatrists locking up unreasonables who didn"t fit into new social systems. Growing state authoritarianism, confinement to stamp out deviance. Government became a part of people"s everyday life. Mental illness a cathartic experience, psychiatrist must decode message. Marxist, society the cause of mental illness, revolution as solution. Violence of psychiatry is the sane perpetrating it against the insane : etc, lobotomies, institutionalization deforms personalities. Inescapable institutions where all facets of life regimented and subordinated to whims of authority individuals lose identity. Last place to rehabilitate people in society. True clients of psych hospitals: families, doctors, police. Mental illness is the result of powerless individual caught doing something deviant bu socially powerful others, who then label that person. Mental illness is misbehaviour labeled as illness, may eventually cause and reify illness by creating identity.
