Summary readings midterm 1 Flashcards
Rosenhan
- experiment people in mental asylum
Weinstein
Goffman’s asylum and criticism
Mortification of the self
Unsystematic gathering of data
Talbott
Deinstitutionalization: discharge of patients into the community
No planning
Need better care, destigmatization
Angell (part1)
Epidemic of mental illness
Drugs as dominant mode of treatment - no good evidence supporting their effectiveness
Need double blind studies
Increase of number of disabled mentally ill people
Angell (part 2)
The illusions of psychiatry
Psychopharmacology alleviates symptoms but doesn’t cure
Freud - focus on internal factors (focus on personality)
Social stress model
(+different models)
Mirowsky
Need a human science: to grasp true range of feelings and emotions
Measurement as the link between concepts and reality
(either index or diagnoses)
Diagnosis objectifies
Human science gives people control over their life again
Need reliability not certainty
Dichotomous category - lots of information is lost
Summerfield
PTSD
As diagnosis for an age of disenchantment
Distress is relocated from the social arena to the clinical arena
Eberstadt
Study similarity between ritalin meth and cocaine
Cottle
Shyness
Medicalization of an element of one’s personality considered outside the range of normality
Epidemic of social phobia maybe linked to the growing sense that everyone should be aggressive, assertive and strive for the limelight.
Rissmiller
Anti psychiatry movement
Szasz
MI as deviation from the norm
MI as explanation for “problems in living”
Rosenfield
Women more frequently diagnosed with BPD (3:1)
Linked to childhood physical and sexual abuse
Psychiatric classification is culturally constructed and expresses an underlying ethnopsychology of the ideal self
