PSYCH 2GG3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Mental Disorder, Norm (Social), Medicine
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Good mental health: there is no clear definition, we assume that those who are not mentally ill are mentally healthy, this is problematic. It also takes a wide variability of human experience and reduces it to a simple checklist. It ignored the broader notion of mental health. It measures people against a list of predetermined mental disorders. It does not explain suffering and anguish in a way that shows human experience, it is cold and inflexible. It is simply an interpretation grounded in value judgments of the patient and the clinician. Key themes: how we take madness which is loosely define and not understood as a problem with the brain. It continued in some places until past the 19th century: on one hand there were many responses to madness, but they were critical. I(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, there is a lot of e(cid:448)idence that madness was a popular part of the pop culture.
