Mental Health and Illness

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Please answer the following questions,.

1.     How have theories of mental illness changed over time?

2.     What wereships of fools? In Foucaults investigation, what triggered the sequestering ofmental illness away from public sight?

3.     To whatdegree is mental illness still stigmatized today?

4.     In 16thCentury Germany, what were considered possible causes for madness? Did doctorstreat  madness? Greek influences? [Midelfort]

5.     Who wasWalter Freeman, and what about the culture and context psychiatric medicineallowed him to pursue his program of lobotomy as it did?

6.     What is theDSM-V and how does the process of medicalization proceed? Is this a problem?Why or why not?

7.     Per theLancet, is the global burden of mental health conditions recognized? Glancingat the Cambridge History ofMedicine table of Major HumanDiseases (pp 357-381) how prominent is mental illness in the listing? What does this reveal?

8.     In yourview, are psychology and psychiatry rigorous and well-grounded, or morespeculative? Give an example that illustrates your view.


Class Material:

       Foucault, M. (1988). . Link:https://monoskop.org/images/1/14/Foucault_Michel_Madness_and_Civilization_A_History_of_Insanity_in_the_Age_of_Reason.pdf(R. Howard Trans.). Vintage Books; New York, NY

o   Ch 1: Stultifera Navis [Ships of Fools], pp 1-37.

o   Ch 2: Thegreat confinement, pp 38-64.

 

       Drer A Melancholia 1514 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336228

notes from Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, click on image to enlarge]

 

       Midelfort E (1999). A history of Madness in Sixteenth Century Germany. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BycQgQA9h7lETlo2eHRkSER1ZEZjUVhwdUZGMGN1Ym1kSXM4/view?resourcekey=0-9YmnCSQoAa3BXygMKQ45qA

Stanford: Stanford University Press. Intro & Epilogue, 1-24, & 385-388.

 

       Misadventures in the history of psychiatry: The American Experience (2008). The Lobotomist. Watch Trailer, then skim transcript.   
   Trailer: 
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lobotomist
   Transcript:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lobotomist/#transcript
             [disturbing elements}

 

       Guldberg, H. (2014). Review: Saving Normal: A Revolt Against the Pathologization of Everyday Life [by Allen Francis].  Psychology Today (16 July 2014). https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reclaiming-childhood/201407/review-saving-normal-0

      The Lancet (2016). Mental Health and the Global Burden of DiseaseStudy 2010. (2:25)    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhyDHWoh_o

 


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