SOC 2070 Final: Soc 2070 - mar 23

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Julie Norman

Document Summary

-often stigmatizes ; we fear what we don"t understand. -once, mental problems were seen as acts of gods, in particular, epilepsy, -all mental illnesses are disorders but not all disorders are illnesses. Dsm. uses disorder for both impairments and illnesses. Difference can be clear, but also a matter of degree. :neurotic: difficult to cope with reality. (woody allen) Reality of his or her own, may deny that they have any problems. - hysteria disease of sudden crying and fear said to be caused by uterus lunacy: craziness caused by full moon (like werewolfism!) bedlam from watching noisy inmates as a freakshow shellshock original term for post-traumatic stress. -lehmann intrigued because drug was described as a chemical lobotomy making patients tractable. -also performed lobotomies without informed consent for the cia"s mckultra project. -drug allowed many to lead normal lives, others felt emotionally dead. Tourette"s syndrome; epilepsy ; parkinson"s; senile dementia ; amnesia; retardation; autism; attention.