PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mania, Upper Middle Class, Social Control
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Key themes: how we take madness which is loosely define and not understood as a problem with the brain. It continued in some places until past the 19th century: on one hand there were many responses to madness, but they were critical. I(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, there is a lot of e(cid:448)idence that madness was a popular part of the pop culture. Vagrancy act 1714: the first law that was created, for the first ti(cid:373)e, it sa(cid:455)s that there is a differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al"s poor people a(cid:374)d. It was just a place to keep lunatics from societies. the wrong reasons. It is an era of secularism, based on rationality and reason. If you think about things logically and observe them, you will find a fundamental truth. It was an optimistic period, they figured with science we can learn anything: this extended to madness, madness like all things can be improved and changed.
