DST 500 Lecture : Wk. 3 - Lecture - Representations of madness in society.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jijian Voronka

Document Summary

Those who tell the stories rule society plato. History is written by the victors attributed to winston churchill. Knowledge (disciplines, frameworks, methodologies, parameters, terms) we use to research and represent madness depend on narrative sequence. How about: irrational thought and behaviour, sometimes disabling, dangerous or criminal, and anomalous to group consensus or usual ways. The idea of group consensus is pretty fictional. Dangerous , criminal sounds like somebody we wouldn"t like might as well say. The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed . Mentalism, like any ism is an attempt to create a caste system. In order of popularity/usage: commonsense medical psychological legal- sociological historical political. Commonsense is one word = group think, as opposed to common sense as two words. Legal term incapacity if you ever want to prove that someone is unable to make decisions for themselves.