SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Personality Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Mentally ill are subject to widely held negative stereotypes comprising 3 dimension. But most mi people are perfectly sensible and entirely predictable. Assume mi are incompetent (at home, work, social life, etc) Some severe disorders = periods of incompetence, some inability to perform certain tasks, but vast majority live fully productive, engaged, goal directed lives those with severe symptoms find niches. Obsessive disorders and detailed repetitive tasks, ex will be very crafty and tailor lives to attention to detail, like artists; People assume mi are prone to violence, the vast majority are not (rogers and pilgrim) Depends on disorder and severity, mostly severe personality disorders (antisocial personality disorder, schizophrenia, etc. ) Stronger predictor? being male, young and poor. Mentally ill: popular culture and media the role of popular culture and media. Globally, the media connect psychosis and violence (usa, can, uk, germany, etc. )