DST 500 Chapter : Wk. 3 - Readings + Notes.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jijian Voronka

Document Summary

Birnbaum article: birnbaum felt that patients were being treated poorly in the criminal justice system because of sanism. Sanism prejudice against the mentally ill, rejection phenomenon. Irrational thinking, feeling and behavior patterns of response by an individual or by society to the irrational, and rational behaviour of a mentally ill individual. Yellow bird article: pemina yellow bird says there were no words for mental illness in indigenous languages. Created when congress has passed a federal law prohibiting natives to practice their own spirituality. Sanctions included holding rations to the point of starvation, withholding treaty payments, and incarceration. Children were kidnapped and shipped to christian schools, and abused to beat the indian out of them , the motto was kill the indian, save the man . An attorney and physician were put in charge of the asylum to deal with the supposedly insane natives for the next seven years.