1. Mental Illness

2. 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!

3. Stigma
“a sign of disgrace or discredit” - Wayne Sproule

4. 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.

5. History of Mental Illnesses Video

6. Society and Mental Illness
Hippocrates’ 4 Humours:
Black Bile (sadness)
Yellow Bile (angry and impulsive)
Blood
Phlegm

7. Society and Mental Illness
Middle Ages
Evil spirits in the body
Exorcism
Praying, fasting
Vomiting
Witches or Warlocks
Burning at the stake

9. 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

10. Phrenology Franz Joseph Gall
Important in neuroscience and neuropsychology in the 19th Century
27-36 compartments

11. 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?

12. J.K. Rowling

13. Sources http://psychcentral.com/archives/top_myths.htm
Sproule, Wayne. Our Social World: An Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2001.