HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Biological Psychiatry, Lobotomy, Chlorpromazine
25 Nov 2016
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Psych at crossroads (asylums/psychopharms: asylums/psych hospitals were being mass built, population inside these hospitals growing. In the 60s, this incline slowed down majorly. Introduction of drug, chlorpromazine, changed many things, such as: lobotomies unscientific, damaging to people, not very successful, ect which were seen as barbaric. 60s attacks on authority, rise of counterculture. Prior to the enlightenment, mental illness did not exist. It was not an illness, rather just described as madness : psychiatrists locking up unreasonables who didn"t fit in the new social system. Unreasonables people who refused to fit into the style of life present (i. e. following the timeline of a set work-day: growing state authoritarianism confinement to stamp out deviancy. Argued biological psychiatry had no understanding of physical pathology, contravened conventions of medicine. A sane response to insane situations not that these people are. Unreasonable but that the world is unreasonable, and these people are just reacting to it.
