SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Deinstitutionalisation, Labeling Theory, Fluoxetine
9 Feb 2017
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Mental illness: torture to treatment: deinstitutionalization 1960s to present need to find new ways of treating individuals. Advances in medicine psychotherapeutic medicines, and the desire to get people back into the community. Minimize stigma of (cid:498)institutionalization(cid:499) that label was having serious affects on people"s identities and their. Unemployment, access to housing, criminal activity - those with severe mental illness have a hard time. ). e. , people who act (cid:498)withdrawn(cid:499), who mumble, or who hallucinate out of appropriate context. Mentally illness: thomas scheff"s labelling approach 1966. Concerns re: over diagnosing, over-medicating etc. (concerned that far to many people were being medicated for medical conditions when they really did not need to be) industry (pharmaceutical) Note: (cid:498)symptoms(cid:499) can be caused by other factors (cid:523)stress, exhaustion, monotony, drug use etc. : (cid:498)symptoms(cid:499) labelled as m) by powerful psychiatrists, aware of cultural stereotype, deviant internalized mi label (he/she self-identifies) Mental illness: thomas scheff"s labelling approach: reflects logic of lemert"s primary/secondary deviance, critiques:
