{"id":2141,"date":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/mental-illness-social-construct-or-scientific-fact\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"mental-illness-social-construct-or-scientific-fact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2015\/01\/12\/mental-illness-social-construct-or-scientific-fact-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Illness: Social Construct or Scientific Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to explore the differing perceptions, classifications and treatments of mental illness, in particular depression. <\/p>\n<p>Key Themes <\/p>\n<p>Personal: The sufferer\u2019s explanation <\/p>\n<p>Scientific: A biochemical explanation of the causes and symptoms, and consequent treatment using medicine <\/p>\n<p>Holistic: Classification of a mental illness takes into account the patient\u2019s experiences, cognition processes and learned behaviours, which therapy seeks to overcome <\/p>\n<p>Social: The onlooker\u2019s explanation and the stigma in society <\/p>\n<p>Foucault: Modern psychiatry, although grounded in scientific truths, is primarily a system of moral judgements. Treatment of the mentally ill can be seen as society\u2019s way of controlling what they deem to be immoral \/ undesirable. <\/p>\n<p>Sartre: Man has the freedom to choose what their life is, however many of us live in bad faith by hiding from this freedom as it is accompanied by the responsibility to have meaning; man is condemned to be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Alikhanizadeh, 2015, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,22,123],"tags":[44,87,40],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-233","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-foucault","tag-health","tag-sartre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}