CRM 3311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pentylenetetrazol, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Bipolar Disorder
8 Oct 2018
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Somatic treatments: designed to correct an individual"s chemical imbalance in order to restore their mental health, fever therapy: Inflicting a high fever on the individual so that they will lose their bizarre actions: based on the idea that mental symptoms disappeared in those who had typhoid fever. Social factors influencing the discovery of mental illness: enlightenment (1700s), previously, a lot of understanding of the mentally ill was rooted in religious beliefs, this time period introduced a break from supernatural explanations. It should be seen as intervention aimed at healing: mental illness is potentially dangerous, they may harm themselves or they may harm others. Involuntary confinement is justified: putting people in these institutions even if it is against their will is justified because it is a means to an end. The total institution: a place where people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and come under the control of officials who run the institution.
