Anti-psychiatry

pill in order to make all of your troubles go away. As such, the prescribing of anti-depressant medications to patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders by doctors has become a priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Treating depression like one would with a headache has become incredibly lucrative to doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Evident through the robust advertisement campaigns for anti-depressant medications, such as Abilify, Zoloft, and Cymbalta, the…

The digital revolution has made it imperative for virtually all individuals to learn how to use and access the Internet. The latter provides a highly convenient and cost effective channel of obtaining information on a wide array of topics and subjects. The creation of websites is one of the popular ways in which the Internet is used to create a specific place where information on a specific topic can be accessed. A website can be described as an umbrella that houses an ocean of relevant facts…

have been over diagnosed and overblown. Many people who do not have any mental disorder are being forced to take medications and become burdened with the stigmatization of the disorder, he argues. He was anti-psychiatry as he rejected nearly all the ideas that were taught in the field of psychiatry. The study by Rosenhan was a significant study in the 1970s, as it showed how little evidence there was to be needed in order to be considered…

Foucault rightfully regards the appearance of the first asylums a significant step forward for the whole world. It meant that the medical community accepted psychological diseases as a medical problem and basically announced that it was going to try to treat it. Madness did not seem like some kind of curse or other superstitious phenomenon nobody knew what to do with anymore. This point is delivered well by the author in the first part of the article. When Faucault describes how the asylums…

equipped to treat them. These inmates are placed in solitarily confinement, and they serve longer sentences than the other inmates and they cost the city three times as much as other inmates. The most common mental illness in the prison is anxiety, anti-social personal disorder, post-traumatic disorder, and bipolar disorder. In 1998, 238,000 mentally ill offenders were incarcerated in the prisons and jails. State prison inmates with a mental condition were more likely to be incarcerated for…

The article, “Beyond the Metaphor of the Pendulum: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Styles of American Psychiatry” by Jonathan Sadowsky discusses psychoanalysis and electroconvulsive therapy in metaphorical terms. It asserts that according to much of post-World War II literature, psychiatrists in the twentieth century often used electroconvulsive therapy in…

support system; seeing the inside of what the patients suffer through. We often view life through what society shows us and we do not question; this website is an eye opener to me because I could only imagine the pain each patient goes through. The Anti-psychiatry coalition certainly challenged my view on mental health because I always assumed that the answer to all their problems was spending time in the psychiatric ward to "heal". The poem "To be a mental patient" has a clear description of…

add to suicide attempts (The National Institute of Mental Health). These type of side effects should be a cause for concern. Anti-anxiety medication can cause people to feel confused; it can cause nausea; can cause headaches; patients can become exhausted; skin issues can arise; depression can develop; suicide attempts happen (The National Institute of Mental Health). Both Anti-anxiety medicine and Antidepressants seem to share some of the same symptoms. Mood stabilizers can cause swelling on or…

and treatment programs that are proven to be valid. 9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder—small changes have been made to the diagnosing criteria for having GAD. The problem here is the easy access that will give prescribers of medicine to prescribe anti-anxiety to people who may only be experiencing short term anxiety issues due to normal life events. The medicine used has been proven to be lethal and harmful to patients it is not intended for and mixing with other drugs, alcohol, or stimulants…

list of professions where psychopaths abound include journalists, police officers, the clergy, chefs, and civil servants. Psychopath's brains To explain the reasons behind the poor decisions made by psychopaths that usually lead to violence or other anti-social behavior, Harvard University researchers scanned in 2017 the brains of 50 prisoners. They discovered two key differences in the structure of the psychopath’s brains. Above all else, their brains are wired to overvalue immediate rewards…