SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, American Psychiatric Association
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Where our modern notion of mental illness comes from, and the techniques and practices used to promote this way of thinking. Both anti-psychiatry and mad movements offer an alternative perspective on mental illness. Scientific psychiatry developed in the 19th century as a medical approach to understanding madness by concentrating on the body as a site of mental distress. Tuke and pinel developed the modern-day asylum and its scientific methods of treatment. In order to maintain the medical model"s connection to physical medicine, environmental factors are often thought of as triggers to biochemical changes in the body. Even in cases where there is little physical evidence to support a purely biological connection (e. g. , no technical explanation), a medical approach prevails. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is considered one of the few mental illnesses grounded in the social/interpersonal context, but psychiatric literature suggests that there is a psychological and biological predisposition to ptsd that is triggered by a traumatic event.
