SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Demonic Possession, Fluoxetine, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

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

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It could either be that marriage is good for men, or that only stable men get selected by. Gender/sex rates of mental illness o women as mates. o neutral. The traditional natural gender role of women (being submissive or emotional) may be o closer to the role of the insane than the gender role of a man. Actions that could get a woman sent to an asylum might get a man sent to prison, and women were often treated indulgently and condescendingly by mental health professionals. The history of mental illness: mental illness was once thought to be caused by demonic possession and to be contagious, Various operations have been used on women to treat mental illness: attempted suicide, depression, excessive masturbation, and promiscuity. Hysterectomy, clitoridectomies & oophorectomies for such behaviour as. Sigmund freud invented the talking cure of psychoanalysis. Patients were often treated with the best interests of others in mind rather than the patient.