HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dipsomania, Social Control Theory, Philippe Pinel
17 Oct 2017
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Health and aging 2gg3: mental health and society. European societies went through a shift - era of scientific method. Asylum could be purpose designed, not simply custodial. Transformation of madness into mental illness, madhouse into therapeutic facility. Rather then imagining mad people as beasts" or monsters", they saw them as sick people in need of care. This way of thinking lead to the model of moral treatment . Appointed to head french mental hospitals in 1793. Believed he could improve reasoning ability of mentally ill. He developed the idea that as a physician, he can restore the mentally ill back into reason through things like daily conversation (talk therapy) If treated with dignity, the patient is more likely to recover. Moral treatment ii - rise of the treatment asylum. Physicians with special training needed to treatment of mentally ill, first classes on maladies mentales . Special curative institutions necessary - further medicalized of madness.
