HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Philippe Pinel, The Retreat, Self-Control
25 Oct 2017
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** madness is an ancient term, when people were generally unaware of mental illness. Mental illness is rooted in the medical world. People who are considered to be mentally ill are far more numerous today than in past years. Treatment/conception of mentally ill does not necessarily t simply story of medical progress. Technology advances do not necessarily mean we have had. If anything, we diagnose more than in the past (dsm keeps getting larger, new pages are added each publish. ) * adhd for example - this is a relatively new disorder caused by large classroom sizes and long hours for children at school etc. https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/history_of_psychiatric_institutions. * earliest recordings of disorders from 2nd c. bce, potentially mania, depression & delusions. Although obviously they did not describe these terms, but this is how we conceptualize the recorded disorder n modern days, by discerning the symptoms that were recorded. * hippocrates and galen (roman physician) situated madness in brain. (not in body).
