Key Study Summaries
can be found at this link

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 There are 3 topics to study in this section. Each has background, a Key Study and an application.

1. Historical  context of mental health
Background: Historical views of mental illness, defining abnormality, categorising mental disorders
Key Study: Rosenhan (1973) On being sane in insane places
Application: Characteristics of an affective disorder, a psychotic disorder and an anxiety disorder
 
2. The medical model
Background: Biochemical, genetic and brain explanations of mental illness
Key Study: Gottesman et al. (2010) Disorders in offspring with two psychiatrically ill parents
Application: Biological treatment of one disorder
 
3. Alternatives to the medical model
Background: The behaviourist, cognitive and psychodynamic explanations of mental illness
Key Study: Szasz (2011) The myth of mental illness: 50 years later
Application: Non-biological treatment of one disorder

David Rosenhan

Irving Gottesman

Thomas Szasz