Szazs
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- Created on: 03-05-17 06:40
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- Szasz: The Myth of Mental Illness
- Key Points:
- 1. Fifty years of change in US mental healthcare
- 2. A medical or legal concept?
- 3. How perceptions have changed.
- 4. Mental illness in the eye of the beholder
- 5. Having a mental illness does not make a patient out of an individual
- Points made in 1960
- Mental health care consisted of mental hospitals or non-medical practictioners
- Mental patients are treated no better than prisoners: unable to leave and no ability to appeal
- Mental illness is not a disease like a physical disease
- Mental illness does not exist, no point to looking for causes or cures
- Reconsiderations in 2011
- All mental health is regulated and paid for by public money
- Political and legal decrees have labelled mental illness as a disease and have included non-diseases such as ADHD
- Mental illness is a misdiagnosis of a physical abnormality in the brain
- If someone does something evil it is seen as mental illness by doctors
- Medicine relies on consent for physical illness, why is this different for mental illness
- People have reasons for behaviour that need to be understood, not treated.
- Key Points:
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