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Aims and Context of Rosenhan
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- 1Szasz then stated that..the medical model for diagnosing mental illnesses is no more sophisticated than believing in demonology. concept of MI was a way of keeping non-conformists from society
- 2Name the three contextual studies of Rosenhan?Laing
Szasz
Foucault - 3What was Rosenhan's aim?To see if psychiatrists coulddistinguish between who were genuinely mentally ill and those who were not. To see if it was the individuals characteristics or the context that influences diagnosis.
- 4How would you describe insane people?The individuals who do not follow social norms/rules of society
- 5Describe the anti-psychiatry movementIn the 1960s psychiatrists challenged the practices of mainstream psychology to be invalid, saying the way we diagnose it should not be based on the medical model
- 6Describe Foucault 1961 and what he believed.people were locked away in order to control society, e.g. drapetomania slaves classed as mentally ill for wanting freedom, 'mental illness' was misused for people who were seen as a threat.
- 7foucault said mental illness was a social construct and that it was the..powerful 'sane' over the weak 'insane'
- 8What did Laing argue in 1960?sufferers of schizophrenia were just a means of controlling society as they were not what they expected
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- AS Psychology2 (Rosenhan) Flashcards on Aims and Context of Rosenhan, created by sammi_taylor01 on 27/05/2013.
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