PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mad Pride, Neurodiversity, Medicalization
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It is clinician centred not client centred: the methods of treatments are affected, we make diagnoses quick and give whatever treatment we think fits, they say there is forced restraints, seclusion and hospitalization. It is grounded in an assumption of irrationality so people think they cannot make good decisions: how can someone who is crazy help fix another crazy person, the mad movement is a contemporary thing. Humans rights and psychiatric oppression: this conference talked about oppression, groups started protesting the medicalization of psychiatric movements, they started to become more visible over time. In medicine now they say recovery not cure. doctor. It is freeing, it provides understanding of personal experience. Aba: there is a debate about applied behavioral analysis, used to condition, reshape autistic behavior overtime through reinforcement, some parents really like this, it improves sociability, but some people say it is repression, you are systematically conditioning someone.
