HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Erving Goffman, Biological Psychiatry, Lobotomy
4 Apr 2016
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Radical 1960s atack on authority of all types, rise of counterculture. Newfound posiion of psychiatrists as real drs . R. d laing famous psychiatrists, philosopher atacked medical model, arguing biological psychiatry had no understanding of physical pathology, contravened convenions of medicine a sane response to insane situaions. We need to think about how we look at the mentally ill, psychiatrist have a duty to help noion that psychoic symptoms were atempts to communicate- mental illness a catharic experience. Psychiatrist must decode message: if someone says im jesus don"t take what they"re saying literally, decode what they mean. David cooper- laings partner in philadelphia associaion coined ani-psychiatry . Marxist (criique of capitalism, let wing poliical movements), society the cause of mental illness: revoluion as soluion. Violence of psychiatry is the sane perpetraing it against the insane : it is inherently violent. Ect and lobotomies muilate brains, insituionalizaion deforms personaliies. Expert noion of mental health simply conformity to societal norms (ex; dsm)
