HLTHAGE 2G03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eric Fromm, Gun Violence, Patient Participation
12 Apr 2017
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Metzl and macleish - mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of american firearms. American discourse focuses on role of mental illness in mass shootings. Four assumptions: mi causes gun violence, diagnoses can predict crime, fear ill loners, gun control won"t prevent anything because of complex psychiatric histories. Each are true in specific cases, but problematic when broad. Oversimplification hides cultural issues: white individualism v. black communal aggression. Scholars: other risk factors better predict/model mass shootings than mental illness. Often the victims; media assumes binary distinction between mild, severe mi. Some legislation requires psychiatrists to assess patients for likelihood for gun crime. Historically bad gatekeepers, diagnosis is observation: schizophrenia violent in 60s, 70s. No proof restrictions would prevent another mass shooting. Gun violence has a social context: restrictions affect lower-income areas. History of diagnoses: madness as social convention, categorized by how we imagine it. Concept of psychic pain seems to define madness regarding disability.
