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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!. Stigma.
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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!
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.