PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Bipolar Disorder, Blood Transfusion, Moral Treatment
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1887 asylum expose - 10 days in the madhouse. Practiced being insane in order to get it, gets committed to asylum, doctors confirm her insanity, released 10 days later. Sees firsthand what the conditions were like. Tied up dangerous patients, gross food, cold and undrinkable water, locked in the cold. When something interferes with your everyday life (maladaptive, detrimental) What is considered a significant disturbance has changed over the years. Ex: homosexuality was a disorder until the 1970"s. Therapies included: beating, mutilation, leaching, transfusion of animal blood. Reformed treatment of the mentally ill (moral treatment of patients) Diseases have physical causes, treatment takes place in a hospital, supported by discoveries in genetics. Classification can help predict the future of a disorder. Critics fault the dsm for casting to wide a net, and classifying nearly any behavior as a pathology. Labels may restrict our ability to think critically. Poverty is a predictor that crosses ethnic and gender lines.
