Abstract
Join the SB team as we talk about the “myth of mental illness,” a phrase coined by psychiatrist and medical sociologist, Thomas Szasz. Today we will be comparing the ideas of mental health and illness as “problems with living” to the medical model. As sociologists we are not anti-medicine or anti-doctor, but we do feel it necessary to use our perspective breakdown the essence of psychological functioning and the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as the gatekeeper.
Keywords
Mental illness, mental health, medical sociology, medicine, stigma, shame
Transcript
You can find the transcript for this episode here! Big mahalos to Dr. Stacye Blount for helping us transcribe this one!!
Sources
- Thomas Szasz the Psychiatrist.
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- Sociology, on the other hand…
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- Overcoming the stigma of mental illness
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