HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stoicism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Orgasm
6 Nov 2017
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Wednesday - writing session held in this room at this time. Until now we"ve been looking at the place the psy-ences occupy in our society. Now we"re going to think about how structures of identity or population fit in. The groups you belong to and mental health. Is mental illness naturally occurring or the result of gender dynamics in society. What is the impact of marginalized gender and sexual identities on mental health. Gender something one does, sex somehing one has. Difference between biology one is born with (sex) and the way that you perform gender in your life. Sex is a binary, essentially two that exist physiologically. Associated with many of the traits we think of when imagining a manly-man . Psychologically this means things like being decisive, emotionally tough, ambitious. The argument about this it defines a norm against which people are measured. Plays this role of taking other ways of performing masculinity and sublimating or suppressing them.
