Topic 4- Mental Illness Flashcards
Busfield
2002
Categorised mental illnesses into either of these categories: thought, emotion or behaviour.
Mackenzie et al.
2006
Men are less likely to recognise mental health illnesses.
Difference between mental health and mental illness
Mental health- wellbeing of a person and how they cope with challenges they face
Mental illnesses- A condition where a person may face day to day struggles and how they cope with this.
Mental health + Covid pandemic
-28% more under 18s were referred for mental health help
-1/10 adults suffering from depression before June 2020, 1/5 by June
_ in _ adults experience mental illness.
1 in 4, according to NHS England
What race is most likely to be ‘sectioned’ under the Mental Health act? What are they more likely to suffer with?
Afro-Caribbean
Schizophrenia
Application of Risk Society to mental illness
Post-Modernist view- termed by Beck
Globalism, global terrorism, AI, Global Warming, Dark Web
Fear creates mental illnesses in young generations
Application of Hyperreality to mental illness
(Sometimes things that are not real can create more a satisfying result than reality)
Cyber worlds, comparison of these to real words- better lives.
People may be embarrassed of their boring lives and want for more.
Marxism on Mental Illness
-Social factors influence health, not biomedical model- stress caused by job, unstable housing, poor diet. Usage of antidepressants instead of rooting down cause.
-Effects of Capitalism on Health- work, financial strains, peer pressure, pester power.
Navarro applied to Mental Illness
-Making illnesses the person’s fault- critiquing the person for the effects of mental illness, rather than focusing on effects of capitalism causing it.
AO3 to Marxists on Mental Illness
-Altruistic doctors
-Medical advances
-Standards of living
-Individuals have autonomy over their lifestyle
Cohen
-Psychiatry is dominated by the bourgeoise
-Proletariats have their work-related mental illnesses ignored by the powerful
-Psychiatrists engage in ‘professional, systematic gaslighting’, providing a culture of self blame for students (link to dangerous pharmaceuticals being given to patients for profit)
Functionalists on Mental Illness
-Parson neglects MI in his findings (the sick role)
-Diagnosis is determined through trained professionals to get medicine (for mental illness)
Laing
Patients relationships with others cause mental illnesses; it does not necessarily come from within the individual.
Feminist view on mental illness
-Close relationship with doctors
-Triple shift/ Dual burden
-Male doctors use their power to control women
-Domestic and sexual abuse
-Limited opportunities
Biomedical model and Mental Illness
-Focuses on the analysis of the physical body using scientific knowledge
-Good health as an absence of illness/disease
-Disease is a result of failings in the body, i.e. overconsumption of alcohol
-Mental illness can be treated/ cured
-Emphasis on pharmacological treatment to target ‘abnormalities’
Criticisms of the Biomedical model being used for Mental illness
-Downplays social patterns of MI
-Mental illness may be viewed as a social construct as there is no universal definition
Rosenhan
‘On being sane in insane places’ 1972, USA
-Sample of 9
-Participants feigned symptoms of hearing noises, faking metal illness and they neglected self care.
-Once admitted they behaved normally but this was seen as a symptom of their illness,
-He told the hospitals an undisclosed number of fake patients were being sent in but he never did- 41 patients were released,
-Shows the biomedical model was wrong to suggest that there are clinical symptoms but they look for labelled behaviour
Slater
Revisited Rosenhan’s study in 2002 with the same symptoms in 8 hospitals,
She wasn’t admitted, but diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety.
Given 25 antipsychotic drugs and 60 antidepressants.
Oakley on mental illness
Focuses on the medicalisation of women during childbirth
Post natal depression
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