SOC 2070 Lecture : mental illness and disorders
21 Dec 2011
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Mental dysfunction/impairments: tourette s syndrome, epilepsy, parkinson s: lose control of motor functions, senile dementia: memory loss, amnesia: memory loss, retardation, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, narcolepsy: fall asleep. Mental illnesses: schizophrenia: dysfunction of the brain involving neurotransmitters, bipolar (manic depression, anxiety disorder, ocd, depression, anhedonia, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders (borderline, antisocial) Today we call it post traumatic stress disorder. Catch 22 situation: crazy people always deny they are crazy, so they may have to admit they are crazy first before they get help and become well. It exists because it has been labelled- doesn t exist beyond the label: subjective, majority opintion, hard sc see deviance as purely perception y. Soft sc ignores cause and focuses on stigma and inequality: the overall trends favour the medical model, but accepts constructionist insights about how we treat mentally ill people.
