Mental Illness
Brainstorm Write the word “Mental Illness” in the middle of your piece of chart paper Write words that you associate with Mental Illness around the outside of the paper Each group member should have a different coloured marker and should each write down their ideas! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rU7WPVcLmQ
Stigma “a sign of disgrace or discredit” - Wayne Sproule
Exploring Social Stigmas Flip over your piece of chart paper Write the statement given to your group on the back On the outside of the paper answer some of the WH questions about that statement ie. WHO is sending this message? WHAT does this message mean? WHY do people believe this message? Etc.
History of Mental Illnesses Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGG9ObRQg4
Society and Mental Illness Hippocrates’ 4 Humours: Black Bile (sadness) Yellow Bile (angry and impulsive) Blood Phlegm
Society and Mental Illness Middle Ages Evil spirits in the body Exorcism Praying, fasting Vomiting Witches or Warlocks Burning at the stake
Society and Mental Illness 18th Century First “places of refuge” or asylums Beginnings of modern treatment 1793 Philippe Pinel 19th – 20th Centuries Institutionalize those with serious illnesses Psychoanalysis and other Psychotherapy for those with anxiety and mood disorders
Phrenology Franz Joseph Gall Important in neuroscience and neuropsychology in the 19th Century 27-36 compartments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolxdANECw4
Abnormal vs. Normal Behaviour Abnormal Behaviour: “behaviour that is out of the ordinary and does not conform to the behaviour of most people” What is NORMAL behaviour? Who gets to decide what normal behaviour looks like? Is it always healthy to conform to society?
J.K. Rowling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GIP4qUTf6A
Sources http://psychcentral.com/archives/top_myths.htm http://www.mendthemind.ca/stigma/top-11-myths-about-mental-illness http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/emotions/balance.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PhrenologyPix.jpg Sproule, Wayne. Our Social World: An Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2001.