HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naomi Wolf, Mental Disorder, Biology Of Depression
20 Sep 2016
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Lecture 1a: how do we de ne mental health and illness? savellm@mcmaster. ca (wednesday 4-6) kth 230 homosexuality was considered a mental disorder 1980s. Mental illness is not a precisely de ned thing, it changes over time, but mental illness depends on the eye of the beholder. what that person choose to de ne as ill is what counts as ill. It may not be dominant in canada today, other countries still hold this belief closely. Most serious psychiatrist are saying it is from the imbalance of neurotransmitter (serotonin) too much or too less of a neurotransmitter. A somatic problem, of the body, deep into the history of medicine you see a physician named sina, that mental illness would be solved by a physical entity, through drugs, through psychopharmaceuticals. That mental illness is a concrete truly existing thing that needs to be solved, that there is a psychical manifestation and that science will one day gure out what it is.
