HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Erving Goffman, Biological Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry
19 Dec 2016
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Women protest against the patriarchy of doctors (abortion, birth control etc) Sixties attacks on authority, rise of counterculture. The medical model becomes the language at psychiatrists start to use. Madness and civilization (1961: mental illness a socio-cultural construction of 18th c. englightenment, psychiatrists locking up unreasonables who didn"t fit into new social system. Growing state authoritarianism (permanent governing structure) confinement to stamp out deviancy. Argued biological psychiatry had no understanding of physical pathology, contravened conventions of medicine. Notion that psychotic symptoms were attempts to communicate mental illness a cathartic experience. Mental disease a handy invention for families- symptoms are whatever families find threatening and objectionable. Marxist, society the cause of mental illness. Violence of psychiatry is the sane perpetrating it against the. Expert notion of mental health simply conformity to societal norms (i. e. dsm) Psychiatry a public convenience taking inconvenient people away.
