HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Orgasm, Suicide Attempt, Psychopathology
23 Apr 2018
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Do men and women express distress differently: men and women may have the same the disorder but it is expressed differently due to other differences due to gender. Do men and women experience the same rates of mental disorder: no. What is the impact of marginalized gender and sexual identities on mental health. Gender is something one does (performative), sex is something one has (biological: people have this idea that sex is physical and gender is a social construct . How do these ideas connect to mental health and illness. Perspective 3) false differences based on research/ diagnostic bias: bias on the person doing the diagnosis. Hysteria how strange female emotions used to be explained: catch-all diagnosis (faintness, sleeplessness, irritability, nervousness, pain etc. ) Post industrial revolution: belief that women were inherently more mentally ill than men: sickly reproductive system, sensitive nervous system, unpredictable. Treatment: vibrators and orgasms used to treat hysteria.
