Textbook of Psychiatry

Noyes, Arthur P.; Haydon, Edith M.

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“…Prior to the 1960s, mainstream American medical and popular opinion often assumed that patients with schizophrenia were, for the most part, White and docile. From the 1920s to the 1950s, psychiatric textbooks depicted schizophrenia as a condition, manifest by "emotional disharmony," that negatively affected White people's abilities to "think and feel" (Noyes, 1927). Leading American newspapers similarly described schizophrenia as an illness that afflicted docile White women or intellectuals ("Insanity Ascribed To," 1935;"Shyness Is Blamed," 1929).…”

Section: The Structural Underpinnings Of Mental Illnessmentioning

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Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

Metzl

2013

Am J Mens Health

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This commentary describes ways in which notions of African American men’s “health” attained by individual choice—embedded in the notion that African American men should visit doctors or engage in fewer risky behaviors—are at times in tension with larger cultural, economic, and political notions of “health.” It argues that efforts to improve the health of Black men must take structural factors into account, and failure to do so circumvents even well-intentioned efforts to improve health outcomes. Using historical examples, the article shows how attempts to identify and intervene into what are now called social determinants of health are strengthened by addressing on-the-ground diagnostic disparities and also the structural violence and racism embedded within definitions of illness and health. And, that, as such, we need to monitor structural barriers to health that exist in institutions ostensibly set up to incarcerate or contain Black men and in institutions ostensibly set up to help them.

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Section: The Structural Underpinnings Of Mental Illnessmentioning

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Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

Metzl

2013

Am J Mens Health

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Further Studies on Pathological Wandering (Fugues with the Impulse to Wander)

Stengel

1943

J. ment. sci

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The range of psycho-pathological conditions for which the term “fugue” has been used has increased considerably and is still increasing. Originally the term was chosen to denote transitory abnormal behaviour characterized by aimless wandering and more or less marked alteration of consciousness, usually but not necessarily followed by amnesia. At present it is used for a variety of different symptoms, some of which have little in common; the psychiatrist using the term has to define what kind of fugue he means if he wishes to avoid misunderstanding and confusion. The reasons for the great popularity of the term are manifold. It is short, handy, vague, and has even a distinguished foreign flavour. But there are other reasons apart from those virtues. When the psychological mechanisms underlying abnormal behaviour were first studied two were regarded as responsible for the origin of fugues: dissociation and escape. From that time dates the tendency to describe as fugue nearly every condition of transitory alteration of consciousness which can be understood as the result of those mechanisms. Thus a remarkable change of conception has taken place; while the term “fugue” originally described a certain type of abnormalbehaviourcharacterized by running away and wandering under a strong impulse and associated with clouding or narrowing of consciousness, it later came to be used, in addition, as the description of various results of the psychologicalmechanism of escape, without regard for the resulting behaviour. Obviously the fact that fugue means escape invited that change of conception. Considering the grèat number of neurotic and psychotic symptoms in the origin of which the two mechanisms mentioned above are supposed to play a part, there are hardly any limits to the use of the term. It is not intended to survey the whole literature on what has been called fugues; a few instances from current text-books and recent articles will demonstrate for how many conditions the term has been used in recent years.

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Textbook of Psychiatry

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Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

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