Before the mid-1960s, the mentally-ill people were likely to be institutionalized. However, the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s and 70s resulted in the case that the mentally-disabled tend to get imprisoned. In other words, deinstitutionalization has led to the criminalization of the mentally ill people in our society because they are considered sane. The unique difficulty of the problem is that most cases of psychosis are “disorders of thought” and thus that there has always been the suspicion that the clinical diagnosis of psychosis was, in fact, a socio-ethical judgment. That is why the 20th-century psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, claims that there is no neutral, value-free psychiatry and thus that most, if not all, psychiatric diagnoses are of subjective or socially-biased opinions. Do you agree with Szasz or not? Explain why you agree or why you do not, and show what public health arrangement you believe is necessary to resolve the problem?
Yes I agree with Szasz opinion.
Psychosis is a serious mental disorder. People who are experiencing psychosis may have either hallucinations or delusions. It causes impaired relationship with reality. Each type of mental illness causes its own symptoms, diagnosis and management. For the mental disorders treatment is very essential to minimise the effect of symptoms. Most mental illnesses aren't considered curable, but they are definitely treatable. The institutional treatment is necessary that a doctor can make a diagnosis based on a particular pattern of symptoms. Other than that there is a social stigma against people with mental illnesses that some individuals with mental illnesses are dangerous. Hence it is agreed that there is no neutral, value-free psychiatry and thus that most, if not all, psychiatric diagnoses are of subjective or socially-biased opinions.
Mental health care worldwide lack access to high quality mental health services. Stigma, human resource shortages, fragmented service delivery models and lack of research capacity for implementation and policy change contribute to the current mental health treatment gap.
Public health agencies can incorporate mental health promotion into chronic disease prevention efforts. It helps for the collaborative care.Public health also emphasize on promotion of mental health as well as the prevention and intervention for mental illness.
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