DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Dsm-5, Philippe Pinel

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Kendra Pitt

Document Summary

Lecture two: gods, demons, the dsm v and other suspects. Bio-medical model mentally ill, chemical balance, paranoid, psychosis, manic, bi-polar. Psychosocial context (thinking about madness in relation to the environment, how the institution affects the individual) unstable, irrational, disoriented, institutionalized, disturbed. Street language crazy, crazy woman/character/eccentric, psycho, weird, insane. Some of these terms can bounce between categories. Makes us question how we make sense of madness and mad people: how would we intervene. If you name madness as a mental illness, it creates a notion that it must be cured: but, not all mad people want to be cured. Words are significant because it tells us a story about what madness is and how we view it. Said to be responsible for a number of functions in our body (mood, sexuality, appetite) Once it was isolated in 1948 seen as being related to what it controls: said to help messages pass through our brains.