Who's Crazy Now Analysis

This weeks readings were before even starting them seemed daunting and overwhelming to me. I don't know why but I this whole story in my head just from looking at this weeks topic that it was going to dense and dry and not grab my attention like some of the other weeks have done. That story I had created in my head was broken apart when I started reading Hornstein- Mavericks in the Maastricht & Who’s Crazy Now? I found this article to be really interesting because it is a topic that I spend much of my time thinking about. Western society has conditioned us to think that when someone hears voices that they have to be suffering from a mental illness and should be put away but then if you look at other societies like India for example where …show more content…
One thing I found interesting from viewing this film was the breakdown on why we have this paradigm view on mental illness that was established years upon years ago still exists. In the video Patrick Bracken talks about how so many of us when thinking about mental health rely on the belief that technology and science to show us the answers to all the unanswered questions we have about mental health. I found that interesting because there again you a perfect example of people focusing and relying all on one source to get all their information from and believing it full heartedly without looking any further to get more perspective. Another thing I found interesting from this video was how faith and the search the search for identity comes into play when looking at the foundation of psychiatry. Hearing that for some reason made me realize my own way of thinking about psychiatry is to think about it being this solid then when in reality it is a fluid and ever changing. Overall this video gave me a better understanding of psychiatry that was much