Mental Illness - Deviance and Social Control - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology of Deviance

Download Mental Illness - Deviance and Social Control - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology of Deviance in PDF only on Docsity! Mental Illness docsity.com The Medical Model of Mental Illness The Four Components of the Medical Model of Disease <Etiology <Symptomology <Prognosis <Lesion docsity.com Scheff on the Labelling Model of Mental Illness -Mental Illness is a label -The label is a means of social control -The label, like all labels, is applied as a result of differences in power -The label results in the viewing of certain behaviours as "symptoms" -The label thus constitutes a self-fulfilling prophecy docsity.com Szasz on AThe Myth of Mental Illness@ -Mental Illness is a “fallback” categorization for "residual deviance." -Most "mental illnesses" do not fit the medical model. -The medical model is maintained by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists whose careers rely on the existence of MI. -As Scheff also argues, ascribing MI is also a means of social control for those who are not criminal. docsity.com Laing on ASupersanity@ -It is wrong to think of the perceptions or beliefs of the MI as ipso facto false or perverse. -The MI are inner oriented and may be able to "see" realities that others cannot. -What the MI "see" may have validity beyond the perceptual abilities of "normals." -The MI experience interpersonal problems as a result of the incongruency in perceptual abilities between them and normals. docsity.com