Mental illness, concept of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Neander
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Illness Concept

The mad were once thought to be wicked or possessed, whereas now they are generally thought to be sick, or mentally ill. Usually, this is regarded as a benign decision by a more enlightened age, but some see it as a double-edged sword – one that simultaneously relieved and robbed the mad of responsibility for their actions, eventually delivering more compassionate treatment, but also disguising value-laden judgments as objective science. The issue is made more difficult by the diversity of conditions classified as psychiatric disorders, and by the extent to which their causes are still ill understood. But the difficulty is also conceptual: what, after all, is physical illness? People usually agree that it involves abnormal body functioning, but how do we decide what is normal functioning? And even supposing that we know what we mean by a sick body, is there a parallel notion of a sick mind that is more than metaphor?

Homelessness, Mental Illness and the Law

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Abdul-Hamid ◽  
Colm Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Major Difficulty ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
Court Diversion

One major difficulty that faces both researchers and practitioners who work with the homeless is the lack of definitions and frameworks that assist better understanding of such people's problems and society's response to them. This article reviews the legislation dealing with homeless people's social, civil and legal problems. We tried to give this legislation's historic and social background, including a section on psychiatric disorders in this group because of then-relevance to current debate on homeless offenders. We then reviewed the legislation relevant to homeless people in general and the homeless mentally ill in particular, including the recently introduced court diversion schemes.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFFECTIVE AND OTHER PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER WITH CREATIVE ACTIVITY AND SOME OF THEIR NEUROCHEMICAL MECHANISMS

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
V.O. Bedlinskyi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Creative Ability ◽  
Neurochemical Mechanisms ◽  
Biochemical Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship

The article is based on the study for the relationship between affective and other psychiatric disorders with the creative activity of an individual. The historical and contemporary views on this problem were analyzed, considering  modern data on neurochemical mechanisms, which play a big role in the process of creativity, and in the development of mental illness. The role of dopaminergic neurotransmission as one of the main biochemical mechanisms of providing creative ability was highlighted. It was concluded that studying and taking into account the relationship between psychiatric disorders and creative activity, including the role and features of the functioning of neurotransmitter systems, can serve as a means of improving the treatment-diagnostic, preventive and reabilitation care of this category of mentally ill.

scholarly journals Mental illness in British newspapers (or My Girlfriend is a Rover Metro)

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 673-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Barnes ◽  
Stephen Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
The World ◽  
General Kind

The main source of topical information in most parts of the world is through the mass media – principally newspapers and television. Television news and current affairs have a duty to remain impartial, as they provide a service for the whole population. Newspapers, on the other hand, have a greater journalistic and editorial freedom as they target subgroups. British newspapers are currently being scrutinised as to how they report both factual and speculative information of a general kind. At the same time there seems to be an increase in their interest in psychological matters. However, work on newspaper reporting of psychiatric disorders (Day & Page, 1986; Matas et al, 1986) has shown that the mentally ill are usually portrayed in a rather negative light with few positive images.

scholarly journals Psikopatologi dan Psikoterapi dalam Perspektif Tasawuf Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

ESOTERIK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Meta Malihatul Maslahat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
The Gift

<p class="06IsiAbstrak">This study aims to analyze the study of psychopathology and psychotherapy from the perspective of Sufism Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. This research belongs to the research library type research using qualitative methods. The theories used are the theory of mental illness and therapy belonging to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah in the book Ighātsah al-Lahfan min Mashāyid al-Syaithān. The results of this study indicate that according to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, mental illness is defined as a disease caused by an imbalance between the dimensions of gifts and the inner dimensions that exist in humans. It is this imbalance of the gift and inner dimensions which is then simulated by psychopathology in a psychological perspective. People who experience this psychopathology must be treated immediately. The medicine to treat people who are mentally ill in psychological terms is called psychotherapy. According to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah medicine or psychotherapy that can help sufferers get out of psychiatric disorders namely by means of repentance, muhasabah, mujahadah and muraqabah and through prayer and understanding the values of Alquran. </p>

The Reality of Mental Illness

Philosophy ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 56 (218) ◽  
pp. 467-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Champlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Logical Connection

My three main points are:(a) Mental disease is a metaphor, but mental illness is not.(b) Feeling ill and having a physical illness are logically related. If there were no such thing as feeling ill, there would be no such thing as suffering from a physical illness. Yet there is no logical connection between feeling ill and being mentally ill.(c) Mental illness is manifested in various forms of behaviour, for example, suspiciousness, elation, depression, etc.; if a form of behaviour is to count as mental illness, it has to be an insane form; yet it is possible to be mentally ill without being insane and it is possible to be insane without being mentally ill.

Sati

Crisis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Bhugra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Social Causation ◽  
Gender Role Expectations ◽  
Good Wife ◽  
And Gender

Abstract. Sati as an act of ritual suicide has been reported from the Indian subcontinent, especially among the Hindus, for several centuries. Although legally proscribed, these acts occur even now in modern India. The principle behind such acts has been put forward as the principle of good wife. There is little evidence to suggest that women who commit this act suffer from a formal mental illness. Cultural factors and gender role expectations play a significant role in the act and its consequences. Using recent examples, this paper illustrates the cultural factors, which may be seen as contributing to the act of suicide. Other factors embedded in the act also emphasize that not all suicides have underlying psychiatric disorders and clinicians must take social causation into account while preparing any prevention strategies.

Socio Demographic and Clinical Profile of Indoor Female Patients of RINPAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Rajni Suri ◽  
Anshu Suri ◽  
Neelam Kumari ◽  
Amool R. Singh ◽  
Manisha Kiran
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Cross Sectional

The role of women is very crucial in our society. She cares for her parents, partner, children and other relatives. She performs all types of duties in family and also in the society without any expectations. Because of playing many roles, women often face many challenges in their life including both physical and mental. Mental health problems affect women and men equally, but some problems are more common among women including both physical and mental health problems. Aim of the study - The present study is aimed to describe and compare the clinical and socio-demographic correlates of female mentally ill patients. Methods and Materials: The study includes 180 female mentally ill patients based on cross sectional design and the sample for the study was drawn purposively. A semi structured socio-demographic data sheet was prepared to collect relevant information as per the need of the study. Result: The present study reveals that the socio-demographic factors contribute a vital role in mental illness. Findings also showed that majority of patients had mental problems in the age range of 20-30 have high rate. Illiterate and primary level of education and daily wage working women as well as low and middle socio-economic status women are more prone to have mental illness. Other factors like marital status, type of family and religion etc also important factors for mental illness. Keywords: Socio demographic profile, female, psychiatric patient

Muslim mass shooters are perceived as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Gregory Mercier ◽  
Azim Shariff ◽  
Adam Norris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
News Article ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Extremist Groups

Objective: We test whether prejudice can influence lay attributions of mental illness to perpetrators of violence. Specifically, we examine whether people with negative attitudes towards Muslims perceive Muslim mass shooters as less mentally ill than non-Muslim shooters. Method: Study 1 compares attributions of mental illness to Muslim and non-Muslim perpetrators of recent mass shootings. Studies 2 and 3 experimentally test whether a mass shooter described in a news article is seen as less mentally ill when described as being a Muslim, compared to when described as a Christian (Study 2) and to when religion is not mentioned (Study 3). Study 4 tests whether a Muslim shooter is seen as less mentally ill than a Christian shooter, even when both shooters have symptoms of mental illness. Results: In all studies, Muslim shooters were seen as less mentally ill than non-Muslim shooters, but only by those with negative views towards Muslims. Conclusion: Those with anti-Muslim prejudices perceive Muslim mass shooters as less mentally ill, likely to maintain culpability and fit narratives about terrorism. This may reinforce anti-Muslim attitudes by leading those with anti-Muslim prejudice to overestimate the amount of violence inspired by groups like ISIS relative to extremist groups from other ideologies.

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