Anti-psychiatry

Unquiet mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a memoir written about Jamison's struggle with manic depression, commonly known as bipolar disorder. Jamison is a professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins School of Medicine giving her both the professional and personal views of bipolar disorder. The main theme of the memoir is persistence in the face of mental illness. The book serves to educate the reader about manic depression while also decreasing the stigma around mental illness at a time when this…

Electroconvulsive therapy uses electricity to induce seizures in the brain. It is used to treat severe depression, treatment-resistant depression, severe mania, catatonia, agitation and aggression in people with dementia. This type of therapy originated in Italy during the late 1930’s. Previous methods of inducing seizures had been much more dangerous and feared by patients. A chemical called Metrazol was used to induce seizures and patients who had used it reported feeling immense terror before…

individuals currently or formerly diagnosed with a mental illness. Psychiatrists major problem is to challenge their stereotypes and prejudices. Psychiatry have contributed misconception about mental illness such as Insulin coma treatment. Frontal lobotomy, and treatments for homosexuality. Psychiatrists do not have the term stigma within any British psychiatry textbooks, thus little research is done on stigmas and discrimination. Descriptions are available for many different types of prejudice…

Poverty has significant effects on both mental and physical health. “The world’s most ruthless killer and the greatest cause of suffering on earth is extreme poverty.’’ (World Health Organization, Bridging the Gaps) Poverty and mental illness have a linkage to each other as one leads to another. My topic is poverty and mental illness. I chose this topic because I personally know how having the resources such as a steady income, healthcare insurance, housing, education can make a difference on…

Introduction Psychiatrist got its name as a medical speciality in the early 1800s. For the 1st century, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to hospitals. These patients were mentally ill, had mental disorder, psychotic, and depressed or manic. The career psychiatrist refers to a field of medicine focused specifically on the mind and treat mental disorders in humans. It has been described as if there is a connection between the world with social environment…

believe John Nash was protected from the worst impacts of the medical model due to the fact that he was “a genius”, he was a white man and the hospital he was occupied in treated the rich and famous. According to the 2012 Annual Convention of Psychiatry between the 1970s to our current day; “black men are 5-7 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.” The main reason why he avoided more punishment inside this system was that he was this mathematical genius and he may have been…

having a mental disorder. Therefore, some children with behavioral issues are prescribed with medication for illnesses they do not have. Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D., the chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, addresses this problem in an interview. He explains “anti-psychotic drugs are indicated, principally, to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, and schizophrenia occurs fairly rarely in children and adolescents. So these medicines…

Implications for the public Suicide of a young person is a devastating and shocking moment in life. There should be much more attention given to is as it is a complex phenomenon and effects many young people in Canada. There are a few ways in which suicide can be prevented individual and communal level. If an individual level would only act as a band aid and help a few individuals communal level would help to lower the number of suicide in total. The difficulty lies in identifying clearly what…

the Chinese treat others and how they are able to improve themselves through personal endeavor shows that they are worthy of the practice of Heaven in virtue-form. These ideologies of Confucianism that constitute the core of the Chinese family contrasts with the way mental illness is managed, in that sympathy is not shown nor is the proper treatment provided. Those affected by a mental disorder are neglected and treated as if they were invisible. Conversely, in America, individualism and…

Levin, A. (2011). Media cling to Stigmatizing portrayals of mental illness. Psychiatric News, 46(24), 16a–16a. doi:10.1176/pn.46.24.psychnews_46_24_16-a Explanation of article: This article takes a look at how people diagnosed with a mental illness is portrayed in the media in regards to violent offences. The article shows how media outlets frame their stories. Levin talks about how, “People with mental disorders are more likely to be victims of crimes than perpetrators, but this is not how the…