{"id":2098,"date":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/the-hubris-of-medicalization\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-hubris-of-medicalization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2014\/01\/12\/the-hubris-of-medicalization-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hubris of Medicalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A considered look into the social transition from \u2018madness\u2019 to \u2018mental illness\u2019 and  the possible connotations of our choice to embrace such medicalization within the Western World, inspired by a reading of Susanna Kaysen\u2019s memoir Girl, Interrupted. <\/p>\n<p>Concepts: Foucault Madness and Civilisation, Szasz The Myth of Mental Illness, Potter The Authenticity Hoax, Davies Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good, Kaysen Girl, Interrupted.  <\/p>\n<p>Aspects considered: Within this project I intend to discuss and analyse the value of medicalization, and will thus discuss how it came to power and why we choose to maintain it. Through Foucault I will challenge the concept that we have always been \u2018mentally ill\u2019 rather than mad, wise or even Dionysian.   <\/p>\n<p>In discussing this topic further I will touch on the technological era\u2019s impact on medicalization, and thus the glamorisation of \u2018mental illness\u2019 within YouTube and Facebook culture. I will also aim to discuss and challenge the pharmaceutical nature of \u2018therapy\u2019 which is so widely experienced and commonly accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Hunter, 2014, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,22,128],"tags":[27,44,87],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-culture","tag-foucault","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}