HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Authority, Hula Hoop, Psychosis
2 Oct 2017
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20th c. , growth in size and importance of disciplines relating to mental and emotional phenomena. Mental processes become seen as central to human endeavour, from advertising strategy to occupational health to school performance. Everyday concerns like sex marriage womanhood and manhood; work, ambition, worldly failure, habits, desires, inclinations, subject to psych understanding. Boom in pop psych, ranging from how to make decisions to the art of picking up". Mental health concerns nwo central to everyday life, with 20-50% of pop. receiving. Many others prophylactically attempting to improve/protect mental health. Massive growth in mental health industries - professionals, life coaches, spas, self-help. Mental health knowledge spread through schools, mall media, social media, police. As a result, deviance became something that required immediate, and sometimes services, government services, etc. These shifts have changed expectations about what it is to be human drastic attention. What things ought to be reason to intervene if you don"t match everyone else or the ideas.
