SOCB51H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pediatrics, Psychoactive Drug, Depersonalization
Document Summary
What is (or is not) normal" may have much to do with the labels that are applied to people in particular settings. Ruth benedict (1934) suggested that normality and abnormality are not universal. What is viewed as normal in one culture may be seen as quite unacceptable in others. Some behaviours are factually deviant/odd: murder, hallucinations. The belief has been strong that the symptoms that patients demonstrate can be categorized, which subsequently divide the sane from the insane. This belief has been questioned as of recently, based on theoretical, philosophical, legal, and therapeutic considerations. The view has grown that psychological catergorization is useless at best and anthropological, downright harmful, misleading, and slanderous at worst. One proposed way of determining whether this process of psychiatric categorization is accurate is by admitting supposedly normal people to psychiatric hospitals, then observing to see if they are determined to be sane or insane .
