Philosophy in psychiatry Flashcards
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Cooper
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-anti-psychiatry
2
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Psychological model
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-mental disorders are learned abnormalities of behaviour; hence the disease model is inappropriate
3
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Labelling model
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- the features of ‘so called’ mental disorders are actually the response of an individual being labelled as deviant
4
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Hidden meaning
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-Apparently irrational behaviours deemed as symptoms are indeed meaningful for the patient; thus they do not characterise a disorder at all
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Unconscious mind model
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-apparently irrational behaviours representing ‘symptoms’ are products of an unconscious process and thus can be made comprehensible
6
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Political control models
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-the medical model of insanity is a socio-political scheme devised for the purpose of legitimizing the control of the ‘deviant, dangerous or the undesirable’- Foucalt stance
7
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Anti-psychiatrists
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- R.D Laing
- Thomas Szasz
- Foucalt
8
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Phenomenology
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- method to define more clearly that which we seek to reduce, namely, the subjective essence of the given experience
- Broome 2007
9
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Karl Jaspers
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- father of descriptive psychopathology
- developed phenomenology
- understanding/explanation distinction
