HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Imipramine, Chlorpromazine
31 Jan 2020
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It is primarily about the individual or the individual"s relationship with their environment. Is it about their brain and thinking or about a persons relationship with their social environment. Saying this is biological: conflicts within the mind, childhood, no longer deep in our psyche but about the brain. Strength to medical model: end of therapeutic nihilism, start of medical model dominance. Better living through chemistry: advances in chemistry could produce dramatic changes in human condition, explosion of curiosity in biology of mental illness in 1950, lithium. Imipramine: lsd, miltown extends beyond psych circles. Industry and pharmacies could not keep up with demand: many people perscribed. "mothers little helpers: popular among house wives. "emotional problems" like a woman"s frigidity, bride"s uncertainty, and wife"s infidelity. Only exist in social environment: things we call symptoms, what do they have to do with our social environment, not just treating women"s symptoms (men used it too), "but treating the symptoms of a middle-
