One of Szasz's central claims was that the term "mentalillness" (or mental disease) is merely a metaphor, ie, a figure of speech with no ontologically "real" referent. And, for Szasz: ... if I say that mental illness is a metaphorical illness, I am not saying that it is some ...
Physical and psychological factors may first predispose a person to schizophrenia, and then trigger the illness. Multiple therapeutic modalities may be used to treat the condition. Modern medical thinking may have originated with Hippocrates. As far back as the fifth century B.C., Hippocrates ...
that in the 19th century mental illness was not taken seriously by physicians and family members, causing the patient’s condition to deteriorate. The beginning of the short story starts with the narrator's description of her mental state and the perception of her family members towards her condi...
In the 19th century, large asylums were built throughout ... W Fakhoury,S Priebe - 《Psychiatry-interpersonal & Biological Processes》 被引量: 78发表: 2007年 Prisons as new asylums , although the majority of inmates with severe mental illness can be returned to the community, sometimes even...
Murder, Mental Illness, and the Question of Nursing 'Character' in Early Twentieth Century England: Fig. 1. 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 23 作者:Grey,JR Daniel 摘要: In May 1918, the Sydenham Infant Welfare Centre in south-east London hired a new senior nurse, Eva Grace Thompson. ...
explored the conflict between obligation to family and culture and the need to individuate. This layer of Tara’s journey is fascinating. In her memoir, she charted her own breaking away while, in her thesis, she explored four intellectual movements from the 19th century – including Mormonism...
Guidance on the care of people in the community with a mental illness The virtual absence of blacks on psychiatric research wards has been reported previously. This report attempts to explain this phenomenon with observations... CW Office 被引量: 11发表: 1996年 Trends in the Mental Health Act...
Eccentricity and the Framing of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. In: Rousseau, G.S., Gill, M., Haycock, D., Herwig, M. (eds) Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524323_7 Download citation .RIS ....
First, the same approach should be used for mental illness as for other illnesses. One corollary of this assumption is that there exist different psychiatric illnesses with different causes, courses and optimal treatments. Second, empiric proof is the best way to test a medical theory. In other...
He died at age 58, while working on "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". 9. Coincidentally (or maybe not coincidentally), this US President and his wife both suffered from major mental illness. Answer:Abe and Mary Lincoln Ironically, many consider Lincoln America's greatest President, while his wif...