SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Demonic Possession, Sedation
9 Feb 2017
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Mental illness: the current situation (from an objectivist point of view: male vs. female, perception of stigma violent. Mental illness: how do we know: institutional records. Men: higher risk of anti-social personality disorder nobody knows why. Different psychiatrists and different diagnoses inconsistent diagnostics. Survey, interview and analysis this abusers the documentation counting visits not patients. Stigma and under-reporting (cid:523)people don"t want to talk about it(cid:524) Mental illness: torture to treatment: recall: certain definitions of deviance lead to certain form of control, middle ages (5th to 16th c) The church, torture and controlling madness: 17th to early 19th c the community left to die, mid 19th century onward. Public asylums emerge in north america (1840 usa) More an economic and public safety problem. The (cid:498)mad(cid:499) as dangerous, stigmatized and ostracized not uncommon to have a mentally ill person out of. )n north american, the (cid:498)mad(cid:499) were cared for by individual families with community support.
