HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Erving Goffman, Biological Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry
18 Feb 2018
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Climate: psych at crossroads (asylum/psychopharms) 60"s attacks on authority, rise of counterculture, number of people confined in these buildings was going up, ect seen as barbaric, medical model is what psychiatrists start to use. Foucault: madness and civilization (1961, mental illness and socio-cultural construction of 18thc. Psychiatrist must "decode" message: mental diseases is an invention that serves families. Ect, lobotomies, institutionalization deforms personalities: expert notion of mental health" simply conformity to societal norms (i. e dsm, how people behave. Mon nov 21: psychiatry a public convenience" taking inconvenient people away. Thomas scheff and labelling theory: being mentally ill: a sociologocap1966. Mental illness" the result of powerless individual caught doing something deviant by socially powerful others, who label that person. Mental illness" is misbehaviour labelled as an illness: psychiatry a powerful social tool that regulates deviance and maintains the social order- the social order itself a construction of various self-interests.
