HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Nosology, Fibromyalgia

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

Document Summary

Incorporates cultural understandings of illness into clinical practices. Psychiatry and globalization: efforts to develop international nosologies, power when determining what is normal and abnormal behaviour, attempts to standardize approaches to treatment, critics: remains highly biased toward the euro-american ideas- the (cid:862)a(cid:373)e(cid:396)icanization of (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal ill(cid:374)ess. (cid:863) I(cid:374) ho(cid:374)g ko(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)o(cid:396)e(cid:454)ia s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s p(cid:396)io(cid:396) to late (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)(cid:859)s fo(cid:272)used o(cid:374) so(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:272)o(cid:373)plai(cid:374)ts (cid:396)athe(cid:396) tha(cid:374) (cid:862)fat-pho(cid:271)ia(cid:863: once media got a hold of dsm lv, began to explain anorexia in western terms. Interplay between interconnected profession, commercial interests, globalizing popular culture. International trauma interventions: since 1990(cid:859)s, ngos (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)ts i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al t(cid:396)au(cid:373)a p(cid:396)e(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) (cid:448)ia ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)og(cid:396)a(cid:373)s. David cooper: coi(cid:374)ed (cid:862)a(cid:374)ti-ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hiat(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863, cooper and laing worked together, marxist: society the cause of mental illness revolution as solution, those at the top oppress those at the bottom. In a way, mental illness caused by being labelled mentally ill e. g. , fire starters.