Week 3 Flashcards
Moving past the biological
- Psychiatry started divided between organicists and pschological schools in terms of cause
- Either focused on the brain, or the mind
- no clear line between healthiness stopping and illness beginning - start to look at mental health
Freud - the unconscious mind
thoughts, memories, and desires outside of our conscious awareness can significantly affect our feelings and actions
Freud - Psychoanalysis
a form of treatment that involved talking about one’s thoughts and feelings to uncover unconscious conflicts
Psychoanalysis importance
framed mental illness
as result of unconscious conflicts between various parts of our mind
(id, ego, and superego
Acceptance of Psychoanalysis
- Sparked epistemological framework
- Related branches broke off
- Dominated North American psychiatry
- Popular among lay people
Resistance of Psychoanalysis
- Overly scientific
- Over morality
- Over gender and sexuality
- Accessibility
Psychoanalysis decline
- Shifting economic ideologies
- Positivistic thinking challenging therapy
Trying to preserve psychoanalysis
- rooting it in neuroscience
- scientification
Psychoanalytic Legacy
- Key in spreading knowledge
- Processes in mind are changeable
- Psych taken out of the asylum
- Mentally ill aren’t senseless
Mental Hygiene
- Need to look at society itself (holistic view)
- easier to prevent mental illness than to treat it
- psychiatric centres and clinics for at-risk population
- disrupted by WWII
Origin of Social Psychiatry
- Post WWII
- enthusiasm to create stable societies
- War revealing higher mentally ill pop
- recognition of mental health as a quality of all people
Social Psychiatry Movement
- Establish NIMH
- Studies commenced, suggesting mental health was rooted in socioeconomic conditions
- insights can help society navigate era of massive challenges (unemployment, race, industrial change)
- call for fusion of medicine and social science
How was psychiatry transformed post WWII
from a science regulating social deviants to a concern about the wider community
- to treat the damaged minds of war vets
Decline of social psychiatry
- psychoanalysis challenged for lack of scientific legitimacy
- neoliberalism hindered
- deinstitutionalization created separation b/t treatment and care (causing homelessness)
- DSM III favoured heavy medicalization
