SY321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: American Psychiatric Association, Mental Disorder, Neurosis
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Thus what used to be bad is now labelled as sick. This person would be called a glutton in the past. Earlier era, much of deviant behaviour was labelled evil. Therefore, it was punished and chastised by the law, clergy, family and community. Today, they are treated in a detox center. Requires you to withdraw from the deviant behaviour. Someone who is prone to violent rages is medicated w/ drugs. Someone who overeats today gets therapy and sometimes surgery. In the past, they were blamed for the condition. Today when people do deviant acts, they are described as unable to help themselves. In the past people were responsible for their deviance. When medicalize deviance, they say that the person is the innocent victim of social forces. Deviant behaviour is increasingly controlled under medicine and psychiatry. Psychiatry has been doing this since the beginning of the 20th century. Vast changes have taken place over the last century.
