History Of Medicalisation Of Mental Illness

Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative

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The Medicalization of Mental Disorder | SpringerLink

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The concept of madness as an illness has a long history in Western culture but it has not always been the dominant explanation for madness (Conrad & Schneider, 1992). While the roots of the mental illness conception can be found in Greece and Rome …

The Medicalization of the Human Condition | Psychiatric …

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As a psychiatrist who has been in practice since World War II, I have seen many profound changes in our profession. These include the ascendancy and then …

Medicalizing mental health: a phenomenological alternative

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Informed by hermeneutic phenomenology, psychiatry's first priority is to suspend the prejudices that come with being a medical doctor in order to hear what …

Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness …

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* This chapter explores the historical origins of the concept of mental illness, its ascendence and expansion in Western society, and subsequent domination of the …

The History & Evolution of Mental Health & Treatment | Sunrise

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First developed in the 1930s, a patient would be put into a coma, after which a doctor would hammer a medical instrument (similar to an icepick) through …

Medicalization in psychiatry: the medical model, …

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Medicalization was the theme of the 29th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care that included a panel session on the DSM and mental …

Diagnosis: are we medicalising human experience?

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Turning medicalisation into holism. Throughout this essay and in the vast amount of literature, medicalisation is a pejorative term. However, it could be argued that the medicalisation of human experience is indeed …

Dangerousness, mental disorder, and responsibility

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Professor Szasz focuses upon a crucial question by calling into question the medicalisation of terms like dangerousness and mental illness. 2 There is a great temptation for …

The many dangers of over-medicalising mental health

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One only needs to look at the appalling mental health gap in so many countries - the lack of even basic mental health care for people suffering hugely with …

DSM, Psychotherapy, Counseling and the Medicalization …

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The DSM has promoted a reductionistic medicalization of mental illness that, in combination with misleading drug company marketing strategies, has created a strong …