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| | Late Medieval |
 | | ‘mental illness and mental retardation (which were lumped together) were attributed to supernatural causes and considered in the province of priests and philosophers. | | | As for the degree of mental illness required, Bracton explains … that the terms he uses (‘furiosus vel non sanae mentis’) mean a total lack of ‘discretion’ and ‘understanding’, an animal-like state. | | | Neugebauer’s argument is that presentations of the history of psychiatry is skewed to show that historic interventions were negative and by comparison, modern interventions are positive. |
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http://www.diligio.com/late_medieval.htm
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| | The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz - Scientism, Scientific Mythology |
| | The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct | | | Szasz shows the concept of "mental illness" to be as flimsy as were the past similar stigmatizing concepts of "witchcraft" and "heresy". | | | Within a year of the first publication of this book the Commissioner of the NY State Dept. of Mental Health demanded Szasz be dismissed from his university position for failing to "believe" in mental illness. |
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http://www.ftrbooks.net/psych/szasz/myth_mental_illness.htm
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| | VICSERV.org.au - New Paradigm |
| | Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria : staying true to our history of suppporting families. | | | Towards an understanding of dual disability: Intellectual disability and mental illness | | | Violence and mental illness: is there a link? |
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| | Scientology 101 |
| | The CoS was founded in the 1950’s by L. Ron Hubbard, a modestly successful science fiction writer and small-time grifter with a history of mental illness, bigamy, and spousal abuse. | | | In 1950, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" was published, followed by "Science of Survival" a year later. | | | It’s no wonder that the cult has been so powerfully embraced by members of the entertainment industry, seeing as celebs tend to live in a fantasy world, trying to balance colossal egos with fragile senses of self-esteem. |
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| | Michel Foucault |
| | Eventually, madness became thought of as a malady of the soul, and, finally, with Freud, as mental illness. | | | From there, he traces the history through the idea of the ship of fools in the 15th century, and the sudden interest in imprisonment in 17th century France. | | | After a brief period lecturing at the Ecole Normale, he took up a position at the Universiy of Lille, where from 1953 to 1954 he taught psychology. |
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| | PsycPORT.com Suicide Risk Runs in Families |
| | More study is needed, she says, to find out exactly why a family history of suicide or psychiatric illness raises the risk of an individual taking his own life. | | | And a family history of psychiatric illness requiring hospital admission increased suicide risk by about 50 percent for those who did not have a history of psychiatric problems themselves. | | | Regardless, she says health professionals should evaluate both suicide history and psychiatric illness history when they are assessing a person's suicide risk. |
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http://www.psycport.com/showArticle.cfm?xmlFile=healthscout_2002_10_10_eng-healthscout_daily_eng-healthscout_daily_191528_4093281371621261586.xml&provider=HealthScout
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| | Psychiatric Times |
| | These results further suggested that suicide clusters in families are independent of familial cluster of psychiatric disorders, and that a family history of psychiatric illness only increases suicide risk through increasing the risk for developing a mental disorder, while a family history of completed suicide significantly increases suicide risk in its own right. | | | Previous studies have demonstrated that psychiatric disorders are more prevalent among kinsfolk of people who are suicidal, and people with a family history of psychiatric illness are at an increased risk for completed or attempted suicide (Gould et al., 1996; Wagner, 1997). | | | According to the National Institute of Mental Health, family history of suicide and mental or substance abuse disorder are among the most prevalent risk factors for suicide in the United States. |
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| | Medem: Medical Library: Practice Guideline for Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults |
| | The past psychiatric history includes a chronological summary of all past episodes of mental illness and treatment, including psychiatric syndromes not formally diagnosed at the time, previously established diagnoses, treatments offered, and responses to treatment. | | | The history of the present illness is a chronologically organized history of current symptoms or syndromes, recent exacerbations or remissions, available details of previous treatments, and the patient's response to those treatments. | | | The patient's history of formal education and history of important cultural and religious influences on the patient's life are obtained. |
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http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ20OM8QDC&sub_cat=41
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| | History of mental illness Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | This new attitude towards the mind, freeing mental illness from implications of wrongdoing, paved the way for a more scientific examination of the causes and symptoms of mental illness. | | | Unlike the Jewish conception of mental illness as sin, the Islamic viewpoint interpreted mental illness as a sign of supernatural intervention that was not necessarily malignant. | | | Methods used to attempt to cure the mentally ill included using opium to induce visions, performing rituals or delivering prayers to specific gods, and "sleep therapy," a method of interpreting dreams to discover the source of the illness. |
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| | Further evidence linking suicide risk to family history (p 1126) |
| | Individuals with a history of family suicide were two and a half times more likely to commit suicide than people without a family history of suicide; correspondingly, a family history of psychiatric illness (requiring hospital admission) increased suicide risk by around 50%, but only for individuals who did not have a psychiatric history. | | | A Danish study in this week's issue of THE LANCET provides further evidence linking a family history of psychiatric illness and suicide to increased suicide risk--the study also shows how a family history of suicide and psychiatric illness act independently and are not influenced by socio-economic factors. | | | Also, the importance of family psychiatric history should not be disregarded, because it can help to identify people vulnerable to mental disorders associated with suicide. |
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| | Appendix to Academic Psychiatry Article |
| | By the end of the clerkship, the student will demonstrate the ability to obtain a complete psychiatric history, recognize relevant physical findings, and perform a complete mental status examination. | | | By the end of the clerkship, the student will discuss the structure of the mental health system and legal issues important in the care of psychiatric patients. | | | compare and contrast the process of psychiatric evaluation of children and adolescents at different developmental stages with that of adults; |
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| | History is not used to 'place' the individual as exhibiting a certain subset of psychiatric signs and symptoms, i.e., to account for the patient's illness, but also to give an account of the circumstances which led up to admission. | | | Patients are portrayed as having a history of anxiety or depression (to the bottom of history), a family history of psychiatric illness (top right), a history of substance, cannabis or alcohol abuse (bottom left) or a history of previous suicide attempts and admissions (bottom right). | | | This history includes a description of the events leading up to the patient's admission, information about her current symptoms, biographical information and various other psychiatric indispensibilities such as the results of a brief 'mental status examination'. |
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| | Mental status examination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mental status examination, or MSE, is a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse or psychologist) systematically examines a patient's mind. | | | The result of this examination is combined with the psychiatric history to produce a "psychiatric formulation" of the person being examined. | | | Mental illness for an introduction into the various disorders |
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| | Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 2 |
| | Mental illness is a term rooted in history that refers collectively to all of the diagnosable mental disorders. | | | It is, in fact, a core tenet of modern science that behavior and our subjective mental lives reflect the overall workings of the brain. | | | It is important, however, to appreciate that mental disorders leave no aspect of human experience untouched. |
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http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter2/sec2.html
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| | Psychiatric History |
| | Freud had the greatest impact on the world's view of mental illness. | | | Devoted to understanding the mind and mental illness. | | | Select the appropriate benchmark period in psychiatric history that matches the event or discovery presented in each item. |
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http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/adnlev3/rnsg2213online/01introduction/hp_history_quiz.htm
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| | NeLMH: Initial assessment procedures - Taking a psychiatric history |
| | In these circumstances it may be necessary to obtain a history of the illness from a family member or close friend. | | | It will be important to inform individuals that the psychiatric history notes belong to the health service and that others with a duty of care or other legitimate role, now or in the future, will have access to the notes. | | | The purpose of the psychiatric history is help with decisions about diagnosis, will increase understanding of the factors that may influence symptoms or problems, and to help determine the most appropriate treatment and management plan. |
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| | ASD Annotation D. Obtain Medical History, Physical Examination, MSE And Laboratory Tests |
| | A wide range of medical conditions and treatments may result in abnormal behavior, and many medical disorders may produce or exacerbate psychiatric symptoms in patients with pre-existing mental illness. | | | (Bridges et al., 1985) A standardized approach to medical evaluation including a thorough history, physical examination, laboratory evaluation, and occasionally other ancillary testing prevents the omission of important aspects of the evaluation (Williams and Shepherd, 2000). | | | All patients should have a thorough medical and psychiatric history, with particular attention paid to the following: |
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| | LSD |
| | Because of LSD’s structural relationship to a chemical that is present in the brain and its similarity in effect to certain aspects of psychosis, LSD was used as a research tool in studies of mental illness. | | | During the late 1960& and early 1970&, the drug culture adopted LSD as the “psychedelic” drug of choice. | | | Although the study of LSD and other hallucinogens increased the awareness of how chemicals could affect the mind, its use in psychotherapy largely has been debunked. |
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| | Age and Ageing: Previous psychiatric history as a risk factor for late-life dementia: a population-based case-control study |
| | Modern criteria for this diagnosis require the absence of other causes of dementia, which means that people with a history of organic brain syndrome, alcohol abuse or mental retardation may be excluded. | | | First, clinical characteristics of subjects with a previous psychiatric history were individually matched for sex and year of birth with other dementia register patients who had no such history. | | | Conversely, some forms of psychiatric illness may be associated with an increased risk for other types of late-life dementia, or for the clinical syndrome of dementia as a whole. |
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| | Indiana University - Center for the History of Medicine |
| | Professor Dwyer's research focuses on the history of social control in the United States and the study of medical problems to which a social stigma has been attached, mental illness and epilepsy, in particular. | | | Her research and teaching interests also encompass the history of law in the United States, and the nature and causes of deviant behavior and the changing institutional responses to it over time. | | | She has taught courses on research methods and the history of criminal justice in the United States, as well as a seminar, The Mad and the Bad, which covers policy responses to the problems posed by different sorts of chronic social deviants. |
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| | An Early History - African American Mental Health |
| | Robert Meinsma's Brief History of Mental Therapy offers a review of philosophical and medical views on mental illness dating back to 600 BC that includes nearly a thousand entries. | | | A review of the history of mental health includes few references to the African-American experience. | | | The issue of housing Black and white mental patients in the same facility was a struggle in both Northern and Southern States since many leading mental health experts felt that it undermined the mental health of white patients to be housed with African-Americans. |
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| | For the latter, it would be advisable to hold the various sections of the neurological examination (mental status, cranial nerves, gait, motor, etc.) in mind as you systematically cover them in the history. | | | The neurological history begins with the chief complaint and history of present illness and then extends to specifically cover the symptoms that may arise from different regions of the nervous system. | | | The social and occupational history may be relevant to the neurological problem and should be taken. |
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| | Shidduchim and Genetic Illness: Medical History |
| | A family history of serious physical or mental illness may or may not identify a "genetic taint." Also, the fact that a particular illness runs in families does NOT indicate that a particular individual, or his or her descendants, are necessarily going to get it. | | | I find it interesting that many young men and women spend incredible amounts of time uncovering minor, inconsequential evidence of illnesses in the past while overlooking the much more important and germane aspects of who their perspective partner really is. With rare exceptions, you are not marrying your partner's childhood illness. | | | First of all, a condition that runs in families may or may not be "genetic" in origin; second, not all "genetic" conditions are fully penetrant. |
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| | OU History of Science |
| | Timothy Kneeland (M.A. 1993; Ph.D. History 1996) completed his Ph.D. in the Department of History with a dissertation entitled, "The Use of Electricity to Treat Mental Illness in the United States, 1870 to the Present." The chair of the committee was David W. Levy; Katherine Pandora of the department was a member of the committee. | | | David offered an undergraduate honors seminar on "The Mental Life of Animals," in which students met all day for several Saturdays to discuss readings ranging from Aristotle to Darwin. | | | The Graduate Student Research Award for 1996 was shared by Mark Eddy, for a portion of his master's thesis, and Kiyoon Kim (Ph.D. for a selection from his doctoral dissertation. |
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| | Chapter 17 - Learning to Observe Signs of Mental Impairment |
| | A mental health expert with a thorough medical and social history, reports of careful observation, and their own clinical observation and testing results can properly analyze this behavior. | | | Most of the behaviors discussed are general signals of mental disorder rather than definitive symptoms of one particular psychiatric illness. | | | This paper is an attempt to outline for the defense team the types of behaviors identified by mental health professionals as significant signs of psychiatric problems, so that critical observational skills can be learned. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Depression |
| | Co-Occurrence of Depression with Medical, Psychiatric, and Substance Abuse Disorders (National Mental Health Association) | | | Coexisting Severe Mental Disorders and Physical Illness (American Psychiatric Association) | | | Pregnancy Pointers for Women with Psychiatric History (NAMI) |
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| | Mental Health - refdesk.com |
| | Internet Mental Health - Effective, well-researched treatments exist for most mental disorders, yet the majority of people who have severe mental illness are not treated. | | | National Institute of Mental Health Sites offers information from NIMH about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. | | | Classics in the History of Psychology - full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. |
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| | Treatment Advocacy Center |
| | Effective March 30, 2005, Kevin’s Law allows judges to order outpatient treatment for people with untreated severe mental illnesses who meet specific criteria, including a recent history of hospitalizations, incarcerations, or behavior dangerous to themselves or others because of their illness. | | | The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) continues to misallocate public research dollars that should be used to offer hope of better treatments and possibly a cure for severe mental illnesses, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. | | | Task Force Chair Bob Davison, Executive Director of the Mental Health Association of Essex County, Inc., said: "The Task Force concluded that any comprehensive reform of a mental health system requires that the needs of the people with the most severe and persistent mental illnesses be addressed. |
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