CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mental Health, Social Environment, Medicalization
12 Apr 2016
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150 year history of jukes (found records of family, crimes) But criminals = defective: physically, mentally, morally. Research: intelligence tests prisons, family new jersey. Findings: inmates = feebleminded, family descendants a. Brain = organ of the mind: exterior (skull)/ interior (brain, mind = faculties and function, faculties = shape of skull, faculties = overdeveloped or underdeveloped, overdeveloped = protrusions in skull. Assumptions mental illness: disease, different behaviours, potentially dangerous, treatment + not negative, involuntary confinement + justified. Implication + moral judgements via scientific language (not value neutral) Mental illness birth of medical model. Believe in therapeutic potential of asylum (removal of chains) Pinel"s cause of madness: heredity, social environment, irregular way of life, passions (spasmodic, oppressive passions (remorse, fear and hate, gay passion, extreme passions, melancholic constitution, physical factor. = ideal place to treat: segregation = take patient away from, soicla influences, untrained family, sources of passion.
