HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Derealization, Mania, Somatization
1 Dec 2016
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Culture what sort of behaviour we identify as mental illness, how we experience mental distress, what we hope to achieve. Many criticize models of mental illness (especially the medical model) because they fail to include culture within their list of variables. Exporting mental health bringing dsm to other countries, bringing medical knowledge from western world to other parts of the world. A person"s symptoms are partially shaped by their behaviour and experience themselves shaped by culture: we occupy multiple cultures at once. Problematically, dsm criteria designed by a very particular subset of the population: what should be seen as normal behaviour, if we globalize, we are taking these ideals and imposing them on people across the world. Defines if behaviour is considered deviant: hallucinations among first nations communities vs. non-indigenous, possession vs. psychosis in latin america, built into every day experience, so it might be normal to hear voices of ancestors for different cultures.
