FINAL ESSAY: “Evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach to understanding mental disorder” Alberto del Río Aguilar Index 1. The anti-psychiatric approach 1 a. Introduction 1 b. What is madness? 2 c. The emergence of a mental disease 3 d. Labelling diseases: the importance of the background 4 e. The problem of medicalization 6
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is not a recent phenomenon. The term paedophilia is officially added to the DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- II) in 1952‚ it began to be viewed by experts as a mental disorder and a type of sexual deviation. In the DSM-III released in 1980‚ the term paedophile is given in full description (Haran‚ 2014). Paedophilia is also a psychiatric disorder in which sexual attraction some adults feel towards to prepubescent children that may lead to adult-children sex. The word
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bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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"Emotional and mental disorder is widespread in human societies" (Ingham‚ 1996: 142). Vulnerability to emotional and mental disorder is inherent in the psychological characteristics of human beings because‚ like personality‚ disorder is a response to life events and particular social circumstances. Social experience and cultural settings are pertinent in the observation of the origins of disorder‚ as they affect both the inner experience of disorder and its outer manifestations. More important is
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Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ or DSM‚ is a classification of mental disorders. It is provided in a common language format using standard criteria. It is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is used mainly in the United States but in varying degrees clinicians‚ researchers‚ mental health professionals‚ policy makers‚ clinicians‚ and other around the world also may use. Its intent is to be applicable
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links between poverty and mental disorder supports the dispute that mental disorders should be an important concern for development strategies. Mental disorders have diverse and far-reaching communal impacts‚ including homelessness‚ greater rates of imprisonment‚ poor educational opportunities and consequences‚ lack of employment and reduced income. This evidence of sturdy links between poverty and mental disorder distributes burdens to the disagreement that mental disorders should be a significant
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Treatment Although psychiatric hospitalization may often be used to address the suicidal and other safety crises of individuals with BPD‚ it is unclear how beneficial that intervention is. In contrast‚ partial hospitalization has shown some promise as an intervention for individuals with BPD who are not in imminent danger of mortally harming themselves or others. Partial hospitalization involves the sufferer receiving intensive mental health treatment for
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Clinical Features Introduction There are two main types of mental disorders; Psychoses and neurosis. Psychoses is a type of mental illness that interferes with the persons understanding and appreciation of what is happening around there whereas Neuroses is where a behaviour pattern is occurring when someone feels continuously threatened by stress and is unable to cope. Anxiety falls under the Neuroses mental disorder for people who have been diagnosed with anxiety can still fit in with
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can be harmful to a person’s mental health improvement. Its effects are damaging and costly‚ both to the community and to the sufferer”. Discuss these statements in the light of the effects of stigmatization and how it can be lessened in the society. To stigmatize is “to characterize or brand as disgraceful.” (Farlex‚ 2011) Stigma can have a great effect on a person‚ especially to one who is seen as ‘different’ to the community. One who is suffering from a mental illness is going through enough
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where people live‚ but it can also affect emotions and how people feel. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a condition in which a type of depression is caused by the changing of the seasons. This disorder occurs in the fall and winter months when the weather gets colder and the days get shorter ("Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)"). Therapy is recommended for people diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder. A form of therapy commonly
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