TIPSters, I give my introductory psychology class the following assignment when we talk about disorders. The goals are to help them to understand a particular disorder in more detail and to develop a sense of empathy for people with disorders. I have found it to be pretty useful and interesting for students.
10. Personal Narratives of mental disorder (10 points). The Beyond Madness webring consists of many internet sites concerning mental disorders. Go to http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=bmadness&list to look at a list of those sites. Find a site in which a person gives a personal account of what it is like to have a mental disorder (choose one of the disorders described in the book) and go to that site. Read that person's description of his or her experience and answer the following questions in a 2 page paper (two full pages, typed, double-spaced, and stapled). Does that person's self-description fit with the description provided in the textbook? Why or why not? What difficulties does that person have to cope with that most people do not? What has it been like for that person to cope with mental disorder? What is your reaction to that person's story? What do you think it is like to be that person? Allen Esterson wrote: > Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: > > << Some might find the article cited below interesting. It gave me some ideas for >class. MADNESS IN THE FIRST PERSON: Narratives of mental illness written by patients, >rather than their doctors, offer extraordinary insights into the condition and its >treatment, writes Gail A. Hornstein, a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke >College. > -- SEE http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i20/20b00701.htm>> > > Gail Hornstein writes: "Psychiatry has a peculiar history compared with > the rest of medicine, partly because it is so closely tied to a particular > institution, the mental hospital. Madness has clearly existed throughout > human history, but there was no organized field of psychiatry before the > 18th century, when what Foucault called "the great confinement" spread > across England and France." > > In one of his books Roy Porter has denied that a "great confinement" > occurred in England in the way that Foucault contends. Sorry, I don't have > the reference, but in *The Killing of History* (pp. 145-148) Keith > Windschuttle cites scholarly evidence which rebuts Foucault's account in > relation to England, and French scholarship which demonstrates serious > chronological inaccuracies that undermine Foucault's psychiatric > "narrative" in relation to France. > > Allen Esterson > London > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ****************************************************************** * Steven M. Davis, Ph.D. * * Assistant Professor of Psychology * * North Central College * * 30 N. Brainard St. * * Naperville, IL 60566-7063 * * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 630/637-5327 (office) 630/637-5121 (fax) * ****************************************************************** http://www.noctrl.edu/academics/departments/psychology/department_site/psychome.htm
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