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'''''Mental illness is a funny term. It is contextual to the time that we are in. For instance, did you know that Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA)?''''' It makes you think about the term mental illness and where it came from... | |||
== Psychiatry == | |||
'''Psychiatry, historically consisted of specialist doctors observing patients and producing a diagnosis based upon their <u>contextual</u> observations.''' However, in the 1970's this came under fire in part due to R. D. Laing and a series of experiments, one of which was the ''Thud'' experiment. | '''Psychiatry, historically consisted of specialist doctors observing patients and producing a diagnosis based upon their <u>contextual</u> observations.''' However, in the 1970's this came under fire in part due to R. D. Laing and a series of experiments, one of which was the ''Thud'' experiment. | ||