Anti-psychairty in 1950

“Last September, Jeff Ingram, 40, drove from his home, Olympia, Washington, to visit a terminally ill friend in Alberta. Four days later, he woke up on a street in Denver…” (William Lee Adams). What happened to Jeff Ingram was he forgot his identity for four days and wandered the streets for an [...]

Although there are many different approaches to mental health care, services within England are predominantly designed and organized around a western, individualized and biologically understood approach. Psychiatric diagnosis has come under much scrutiny for not being holistic when trying to [...]

The autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis follows the journey of Marjane Satrapi’s life as she experiences the dangers of the Iran war. Satrapi’s narrative provides a personal look into life during the Iran war, following her throughout not only her childhood in Iran but into her travels [...]

It is not uncommon for the pain of physical trauma to transcend into mental trauma as well. This can be seen in Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky, in which she describes the aftermath of a brutal rape. Although she was physically hurt by the man that attacked her, she still dealt with the mental turmoil [...]

Coming from an American background gives a person a very narrow idea of what death means. To Americans, most if not all deaths are treated the same based on the individual's cultural background, which in the United States is overwhelmingly white, middle class, and Christian or some variation [...]

When thinking of a mental disorder, does psychology come to one’s mind? Psychology is the scientific study of consciousness and how those components combine to result in our conscious experience. Psychology has allowed psychologist to form different types of studies. Psychopathology is the study [...]

Stress affects health, and physiological changes support this assertion. Two studies have used telomere length as an indicator of health, and both test stress’s impact. One of the studies tests whether mothers who have a chronically-ill child—essentially creating a demanding [...]

In Canto XIII of Dante’s Inferno, those who committed suicide are punished. Like in the other circles of the inferno, the punishments for those who committed suicide is directly linked to the nature of their sin. In the case of those who committed suicide, the souls are not given bodies as other [...]

Class we are going to be talking about how climate change and global warming affects us and the world around us. I wonder why my car wouldn’t start this morning maybe a blow fuse, or maybe something much bigger is the problem hmmm. It’s such a nice day out today there is some many things that I [...]