Catarina's Madness

In resonance to my western lenses, Catarina’s behaviours were out of her control and were heightened by her mother’s death, economic factors, stress, and her marriage (Braveman, & Gottlieb, 2014). In contemporary society, the concept of madness has not changed in terms of what are ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ behaviours, thoughts and feelings’. (Braveman, & Gottlieb, 2014). However, in contemporary society, ‘madness’ has a label to it; a diagnosis. “Many scholars argue that labels, such as mental illness are used for social and political control, often resulting in harming rather than helping people” (Gambrill, 2014 p. 16). ”
According to Jutel and Conrad (2014), diagnosis is always a social creation. However this does not mean the diseases