SOWK 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Psychiatry, Burstow, Systems Theory
25 Nov 2017
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Anti-psychiatry to defocus on pathology; socialize, de-medicalize psychiatry, mental. E. g. , same over emphasis on fixed identity. E. g. , debate on bonnie burstow anti-psychiatry scholarship. Will come across this debate if working in the mental health area. Do not define someone by their diagnosis. Look at them in terms of a human being. Don"t question if they took medication today but instead use meaningful conversations to. Starting with structural pieces before talking about de-medicalizing. Pieces of paper opening doors for you due to diagnosis. Being labelled because of a mental illness or because of medication. How it affects personal life because of the stereotypes surrounding medication. The way the pharmaceutical industry advocates for medication because it makes money, Political powers that play into it, the labour market"s contribution to medication. Focusing on people who are already being acted upon and not the actual system. Teleological- subject to considerations of relative harms & merits.
