HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Kind, Biopsychosocial Model, Mental Disorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

So what is mental illness exactly: mental illness has a lot of di erent interpretations. Louis riel, joan of arc, and george bush all said that god touched them. Now looked back are questioned of thinking to be mentally ill. Before 1980"s being gay were thought to be mentally ill. The psychiatry back then is wrong but that"s not true, everything evolves and changes. What about good mental health: google shows women doing yoga, or them in a tranquil setting, or people interacting with each other. What does a mental disorder do: we have a fundamental, conceptual structure so far, mental illness is: Problem that a person has in some way that is expressed through thought, behaviour, and mood. Disorder are formal diagnosis physical vs. mental illness. Physical is expressed physically and through the body: mental is expressed through the mind. Mental illness as a personal problem (moral failing, no such thing as mental illness at all)