Andrew Phelvin article, “Winterbourne View Hospital and the Social Psychology of Abuse” compares the ideas of a social psychologist, Phillip Zimbardo, to different experiments that have happened over the years. The focus of the scholarly journal is the Winterbourne View hospital situation that happened in early 2011. He briefly summarizes the reason as to why the hospital is included in his article. A BBC reporter secretly filmed the Winterbourne View Hospital in 2011. This caught on film the abuse of residents in the hospital who suffered from mental illness. Phelvin also talks speaks about two other events that are similar to the Winterbourne view mistreatment. The Stanford Prison Experiment in particular continues the steady theme of controversial psychological experiments. Phelvin includes definitions of behavior that people who are involved in these experiments may have stimulated within them. Dispositional factors are when the personality traits or the motives of people change from the different circumstances at which they are involved. When they are free to choose their choices may become deeper desires that they want to do but not always morally right. This idea specially connects with…
This is the first psychiatric hospital admission for the patient, Holden Caulfield, a 17 year-old male, at Massachusetts General Hospital. The subject freely admitted himself to the care facility at 13:00 on November 28, 1958, with the company of his parents-whose consent was necessary given Holden's legal status as a minor. His induction will be taking place without any incident. Within the time of his arrival, Holden appeared to be quite exhausted and dilapidated. He was wearing woolen slacks and a warm jacket, yet appeared to be suffering from some sort of intense disturbance. His walk was slow and his gait guarded, as if he expected an attack at any moment; he appeared lucid, and sarcastic as well as confused, however, did not mask his above average intelligence. This became specifically apparent to the nurses assigned to his immediate care. The patient has also displayed a penchant for sarcastic comments, especially regarding “phonies”-at this time, we remain unsure of whom he is referring to when he uses this terminology.…
Rosenhan theorized that if the criteria for the diagnosis are adequate, then the mental health professionals should be able to distinguish between the sane and the insane. Also, he wanted to identify if the diagnosis are tied more to the situation than to the patient. To prove his theory, Rosenhan introduced normal people…
When it comes to diagnosing patients it can be different to gather all the criteria needed during observations. Sitting face to face with a patient and getting their view on the subject is not the same thing as experiencing or watching the problem unfold first hand as something you observe outside of a study room. Because we are not able to see the problem as it unfolds first hand we are not able to receive all the accurate information, and when a client recounts the events he or she could always leave something out that would be important in the diagnoses. These cases can lead to misdiagnosing and possible worsening of the problem. An example would be how difficult it is to diagnose autism and how many children have been misdiagnoses for this very reason.…
The Rosenhan (1973) study contains many ethical issues such as deception to the hospital staff and stress for the actors. Although this experiment significantly reflected on the inaccuracy of psychiartric diagnosis, the degree of generalizability on applies to psychiatric hospitals in the United States. The methodology of this experiment produced accurate results. In another sense, concepts of abnormality are cultural bound therefore this experiment may not be an accurate representation in other cultures. Since…
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the author Ken Kesey, portrays sanity versus insanity, and maybe most predominantly, who gets to determine what qualifies as sane versus insane. The ward’s mentally ill patients happen to be the “different” people in society, which is why they are institutionalized. Chief Bromden considers this social economic society as “the combine” because it reminds him of a huge machine. Chief Bromden thinks that the combine is going to turn into a dehumanized society where people act like robots and do not think for themselves. The people who do not conform to this dehumanized society end up in the ward. It is "a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches..."(Kesey 40). The combine is a made up establishment that portrays how society was during the 1950’s.…
Rosenhan wanted to see if psychologists needed these tests, shouldn’t they be able to tell who is insane and who isn’t. Is diagnosis tied to patient or situation? He proposed to find it by admitting "pseudopatients" to psychiatric facilities and see if they are found to be normal. If they are not, means that the diagnoses are tied more to the situation than the patients.…
As a class, we watched the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which is regarded as a classic film that left a lasting impact on how viewers view treatments of various mental illnesses. The procedures such as lobotomies, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were harsh and give to patients without any thought to the lasting effects on their minds. The treatments seemed a way to keep the patients under control. After seeing the movie, the audiences viewed the treatments for mental illness as dangerous, inhumane and used with abandonment. The show also brought to light how patients were treated in a large mental institutions, making them question how awful mental healthcare was and how much it needed to improve. The film depicts the several psychology phenomena.…
There are about 5.7 million of American adults who suffer from manic-depression illness. Manic-depression is another name for bipolar. What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is a disorder in which the brain experience manic high (enthusiastic) and low (depression). The nonfiction story "An Unquiet Mind: Memoir of Mood and Madness" relates to bipolar disorder and influence of society.…
The study concluded, "It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals" and also illustrated the dangers of dehumanization and labeling in psychiatric institutions. It suggested that the use of community mental health facilities which concentrated on specific problems and behaviors rather than psychiatric labels might be a solution and recommended education to make psychiatric workers more aware of the social psychology of their facilities. However, the study has been critiqued and accused of being pseudoscience presented as science.…
Example: Patient Mr. X admit with the history of the psychological problem for three years. When the nurses passing report called the Mr. X as PSY patient.…
The three phases of the mental patient according to Erving Goffman to me was very intriguing. The first phase is the prepatient phase this refers to the period in which the patient is admitted into the hospital this could lead to the next phase which is known as the, Inpatient phase which is the period when the patient goes into the hospital. The last phase is the ex-patient this phase is when a patient is discharged from the hospital. A patient’s self-identity changes throughout their time in the hospital by these phases. The patient is first admitted into the hospital when he or she believes they are either losing their minds completely or self control of their lives. During their time spent in the hospital, he or she may convert into the stage where they feel like they may have been abandoned by their family and society etc. The patient may become anti-social towards the staff and other patients in the hospital until they finally realize that they have an issue with themselves. After he or she acknowledge their problem, the patients may then start to be more social and receiving treatment with no problems as an ex-patient he or she will fully recover with new aspects of their lives and towards their society.…
Rosenhan took eight different type if people for his experiment. There were three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter and a housewife. Three of them were woman, five of them men. All were in perfect mental health. In all of the cases, their presence was not known to the faculty of the hospitals. In order to generalize the findings into a variety they were all placed in different hospitals. "The 12 hospitals in the sample were located in five different states on the East and West coasts. Some were old and shabby some were quiet new. Some were research-oriented, others not. Some had good staff-patient ratios, others were quiet understaffed. Only one was a strictly private hospital. All of the others were supported by state and federal funds or, in one instance, by university funds." They all came "complaining that he had been hearing voices". After they were admitted "the pseudo patient ceased simulating any symptoms of abnormality". They all acted like they would regularly. Over all, they stayed at the hospitals for a total of 129 days. While they were at the hospitals they acted as they would usually do. While they were there, they would write down every thing they would see/be done to them. They tried to show that they are completely sane, but were not believed.…
In the memoir, Darkness Visible A Memoir of Madness, author William Styron chronicles his descent into depression, from the point when he first recognized the seriousness of his situation, through months of increasing despair, darkness, and blank helpless dependency, and then, after crisis, to wellness.…
Looking at “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, through a Freudian lens provides the reader with a new perspective on the characters in the novel. Ego, superego, and Id are shown multiple times with different characters throughout the novel. Everyone has a little bit of Ego, Superego, and Id in them and that is proven various times in the novel; from when McMurphy used Bromden for money, to Bromden hiding inside his metaphorical fog all the time, to Nurse Ratched's strong desire for order and power.…