Essays on Sane

While 21st century boasts of improvements in all aspects including health care, it is ironical that stigma against mental illness is still prevalent. A recent study conducted by Australian researchers confirmed that around 75 percent people suffering from the various mental disease like depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia experienced discrimination. That is, people are likely to hold traditional views and perceptions when it comes to dealing with such( people suffering from mental health disorders) persons. More than 35 percent people surveyed agreed that the person who has experienced mental health problem is likely to exhibit more violence than 'normal' people. ...

Depression, anxiety, and stigma related to it.

Mental illness also known as a mental disorder is a type of condition that affects the way people think, their moods, perception, and behavior. It can lead to distress and hinder one's ability to do work or be functional in other fields (Healthdirect, 2014). A mentally ill patient is prone to severe challenges such as depression, anxiety and irrational thoughts. This condition comes in many forms, some of which include disorders that affect one's moods, personality, and eating habits. As a result, it leads to psychotic disorders, drug abuse, and Trauma. On a far more negative note, mental illness ...

Psychiatry and nutrition are integral aspects of the human health. Nutrition plays an instrumental role in enhancing the wellbeing of a person. Various nutritional elements have to be provided to the body if the human health should be maintained. The focus of this essay is on the importance of flavonoids and whole grains on cognitive performance and reduced risk of premature death respectively. It also delves into the dynamics of psychiatric diagnostics and some of the loopholes that the field possesses. Rosenhan experiment was conducted back in the 1970’s with the goal of ascertaining the validity of diagnosis ...

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The Rosenhan experiment used in the establishing the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted in 1972 by David Rosenhan, titled “On being sane in insane places” consisted of two main parts. The area second part of the experiment, where the staff in the psychiatric hospitals falsely detected a large number of genuine patients as impostors is not a justification as to why the sane people cannot be distinguished from the insane in psychiatric hospitals (Fontaine 348-365). It is this is because in the experiment, the inability of the nurses to identify the imposters cannot be a generalized aspect, their inability ...

The most important concepts I have learned this semester about sexual identities and communication are from Jonathan Katz. In his book, The Invention of Heterosexuality, Katz delves into the topic of heterosexuality and argues that it was invented, rather it being something natural. He views heterosexuality as a new concept that has its own codes of conduct, not to mention cultural distinctions with a strong historical background. The bottom-line is that communication played a significant role in making heterosexuality appear as a normal occurrence in the society. What is new to me is that in the past, there were ...

Cloning is the propagation of a cell or an organism as a clone of another. A series of successful historical landmarks in genetic engineering that began as early as 1885 when a sea urchin was used to demonstrate artificial embryo twinning by Hans Adolf and Edward Dreisch lead to cloning as we know it when the first mammal was successfully cloned in 1996. The clone named Dolly brought to light the possibilities of cloning. In 2013, the greatest landmark was reached, and Human Embryonic stem cells were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (Roleff 19). There has been an ...

1. What is the overarching research question behind placing “pseudopatients” in psychiatric hospitals? Do the salient characteristics that lead to diagnoses are to be found in the patients themselves or in the environments and contexts in which observers find them? (Rosenhan, p. 251) 2. How would you characterize this research methodology—experimental, survey, observation, case study, etc.? The research methodology is experimental. (Rosenhan, p. 251) 3. Describe the method: the participants (pseudopatients), the location, how they sought admission. Eight participants were selected. They represented a diverse group of three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter, a housewife, and ...

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Rosenhan’s “Being Sane in Insane Places”: Two Questions

Q1: How does this research illustrate the basic ideas of labeling theory in sociology? The research provides proof that a label has a life of its own, which sticks into the person permanently and erroneously defines him in a capsulated form as limited as a diagnostic word. Once a diagnosis of mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia) is made, that label will stick with the person in the eyes of those who gave the label and those who knew of the label (Rosenhan 147). Moreover, with this limited conceptualization of the patient through the diagnostic ...

The code of conduct thence, build by members of the two different gender namely male and female are given poignant preeminence since they have been inherently cultured to create into women a docile lam like character that places them under some helpless disposition of abuse by their male colleagues. It is this abhorred state of affairs that the writer tries to satirize in the exposition that are eminent in the stories thereof. The writer presents a female character who disabuses the mythology of female gender inferiority and separates with her abusive husband when the marriage life that she had initially craved ...