POLI 100 Lecture 5: SOCIO 250 – October 12th
Document Summary
Sociological approaches to understanding the relationship between mental illness and society. Trepanning (trephining: releases spirits, psycho surgery, our approach to contemporary mental illness is driven by our sociological construction of its cause. Origins of psychiatric culture: has been around for 200 words, christian riel first to use psychiatry as a term. The psychiatric bible (around today: diagnostic and statistical (dsm) manual of mental disorders, document that is used to provide the diagnostic for what is and what is not a mental illness. Social relativity of psychiatry: homosexuality was known as a disease until the early 1970"s, took a vote of whether homosexuality was a disease results were 51% to 49, homosexuality was then after not considered a disease. Mental illness and the criminal justice system: 15-20% of the canadian prison population is considered to have or have had a serious or persistent mental illness, 116 per 100,000.
