HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antipsychotic, Psych, Shoplifting
10 Mar 2020
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In 1800"s we started building state asylums - huge psychiatric hospitals. Acquired negative reputation - where people went to die. 1953 - first effective antipsychotic medication was used for treatment (chlorprom. Changed foundations of psychiatry (divided evenly between freud and log. This drug offered a possibility - people might be able ot receive mental heal settings. Argued that biological approaches were not built on strong foundations. Lacks understanding of physical pathology, contravenes conventions of medicine. Acquired status of celebrity psychiatrist - had fame because he was good at what he d. Psychotic symptoms as communication that psychiatrist must decode. He talked about delusions as things that practitioners need to make sense of. E. g. , if someone says they are jesus, make sense of it (maybe they believe that they su. A sane response to insane situations - things we imagine about mental illness. Described mental illness as a "handy invention" - useful for families to use to deal with of parent.
