SOC318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Community Mental Health Service, Moral Treatment, Deinstitutionalisation
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November 9th: psychologists not as effective as they think they are, ctos *** Treatment in early institutions: physical restraints, hydrotherapy, fire hosing, dry shock, insulin therapy, lobotomies, barbaric forms of treatment, moral management had a lasting impact, could not compete with medical models in the century to come. Dealing with the revolving door: civil commitment process, only those in the direst need should be detained, must show signs of mental disorder and certification is considered. The contradictory subject: why did alberta implement a jurisdiction that is not helpful in other places, unpredictable and potentially harmful without treatment, psychiatric subject. Increased visibility of population that was essentially hidden from the community. Justification for new regimes of control (medicine: medicine has a lot of power, keeping control of those who are non-compliant. A physical disability: discreditable = the difference is not already known and obvious (ex. A mental illness: something we presume by behaviour and presentation.
