SOCB22H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Radical Feminism, Trauma Model Of Mental Disorders, Mental Disorder
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Emergency of feminist therapy, trauma became a central framework through which professional helpers view violence against women, with one consequence being a shift in trauma theory. Women are traumatized by everyday violence against women just as men are. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and the feminist engagement with ptsd. Feminists have involved themselves with definitions of ptsd as set forth in respective editions of the dsm. Related criticism raised about ptsd is that it does not describe the effects of repetitive violence and victimization. Feminist trauma practitioners have been at the forefront in critiquing the dsm and pioneering more radical approaches to trauma. Understanding institutional psychiatry and the implications of understanding. Invented the concept of mental disorder and broken it down into distinct diagnostic categories, psychiatrists impose the categories on vulnerable others, while studying those others and calling the result knowledge.
