HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Frontal Lobe, Neurosis, Dander
8 Mar 2016
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Lecture 2: a brief history of mental illness and psychiatry. 09/21/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1: the transformation of madness into mental illness: mental illness is a new (cid:1) idea, sort of. It is a medical idea, but strange or abnormal behaviour was not always framed/explained as a medical problem throughout human history. We have conceptualized it, for a long period of time, as madness. Madness refers to strange or abnormal behaviour, which may or may not be the same as mental illness. (cid:1) becoming more mentally ill . Diagnosis of every type of mental illness have increased in frequency. (cid:1) towards a bright future, where everything is getting better. There is this idea that as a society we are: we imagine that we finally get it. Our earliest written recordings of madness come from 2000 before the common era. We find descriptions that sound like the person might be manic or experiencing a delusion.
