HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rosenhan Experiment, Autism Spectrum, Mental Disorder
22 Nov 2016
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Mental illness: less specific, people who are psychologically unwell. Some use illness as a overarching term that include various disorders, others use illness and disorder interchangeably. Can pressure alone change what counts came back and found they couldn"t get treated. Ptsd was not recognized until 1980; war veterans until ptsd as a mental illness snapshot of normality. Robert spitzer and dsm iii: following the famous rosenhan experiment, pressure to create uniformity in psychiatric diagnoses. Dsm iii: standardized with icd, committee consensus to define disorders. Dms 5: some groups vowing not to use it; last may, chief psychiatrist in us. Subjective: depends on whether it"s clinically significant, itself something. Where is the line drawn between distress or and disorder? wrong. Disorder or distress? that is not scientifically measurable. How common are mental disorders? increase in mental disorders. 1/3 to of people report symptoms of mental disorders at some point in life.
