Summary Of ' I 'm Crazy '

In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” which documents the results of studies he and his confederates conducted at 12 different psychiatric hospitals across the United States. The studies were an examination into the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis methods. Rosenhan’s research focused on testing the hypothesis of whether or not psychiatrists and medical staff can distinguish the sane from the insane and if the characteristics that lead to diagnoses relate more to the patient or to the environment and context in which they’re being assessed. (Rosenhan, 1973) The study was divided into two main parts. Participant observations and comparative information studies were noted as well as they gave valuable insight into the treatment of psychiatric patients, conditions in psychiatric hospitals, and the effect that diagnostic labels had on how patients were perceived by staff. Ultimately, the study discovered that psychiatrists could not reliably distinguish the sane from the insane and insight was gained into how diagnostic labels and environmental context play a strong role in the perception of behavior.

"But I believe I was right sir. I did my job. And I will not

Ron Powers’s book No One Cares About Crazy People and Nassir Ghaemi ’s book First Rate Madness, both describe the backstory of mental health throughout history. Power’s book begins with Bedlam, to the method of moral treatment towards mentally ill patients, to presidents in America undertaking the role in acting health care. Ghaemi’s book focused on world leaders who suffered from mental illness. Those leaders made positive and negative impact on today's society and the treatment of medications that they underwent.

"But you planned the battle. I'm sure that my companions will agree with me that this fact invalidates you as commander of the army."

In the article Talking Back to Madness, states that of the patients who are diagnosed with Schizophrenia only 50% agree to take medication (Balter, 2014). The medication that is given to patients with Schizophrenia causes serious side effects. It is also mentioned that studies have shown that for some patients Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can replace antipsychotic medications, and be just as effective as drugs (Balter, 2014). In my opinion, I think it is always better if a patient can get better without the need of medication, using CBT as a replacement for antipsychotic medication can benefit the patient in a couple of ways. The patient will get better and they will not have to suffer through the side effects caused by the consumption of the

"How did you know he was dead? I never mentioned it and it hasn't been released to the public yet."

“Come on get in the car. Its freezing out here. I’ll tell you on the way.” he retorts, clearly not as bothered by the situation as she is.

In the story “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by David Rosenhan, an experiment was performed to distinguish the “sane” from the “insane”. Rosenhan’s experiment was “being sane in insane places”. In 1970 David Rosenhan a psychiatrist and eight perfectly healthy and sane “pseudo patients” fake their way in into psychiatric hospitals across the United States. Martin Seligman states “David just called me up and said, ‘are you busy next October?’ I said.

What constitutes normal and abnormal is not universally agreed upon, but there are certain criteria to consider when evaluating abnormalities, which was pointed out in Rosenhan (1973). However, he questions the standards of sanity in society and the system that diagnoses the abnormal. One of the primary research questions looks at if a psychiatric diagnosis is reflective of the person or the environment. To attempt to answer this, 8 people (pseudopatients) with no history of mental issues checked themselves into a psychiatric hospital under the pretense that they were hearing voices. After they were admitted, they

“Cheer up! You did a good thing. There’s a lot of....talk about my boss. Lies, mostly. He just wants to help people by you so that you can do right by someone else. Besides, where was the other guy when your wife needed him, huh?”

“Are you cold, Wulfric?” she asked and I could only nod my trembling head. Rochelle stood up and we heard the wind roar.

“Leave that up to my dad,” Vinyl said. She sounded confident that we would, in fact, be in another place at the end of the day. “Trust me, Octy. We’ll be okay. You do trust me, right?”

It is hard for someone to come out to others that either they or a family member has a mental illness to others. In the film Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, there are five different characters who either have a mental illness or they are a family member who is affected by it. The overall story follows a young woman named Lucy who is a law school dropout struggling with schizophrenia. Throughout the episodes, Lucy comes home from a psychiatric facility, conflicts with her resenting sister, and eventually defends a woman in court who is struggling from post-traumatic stress disorder. The directors of the film created these five episodes with these characters because they all had trouble trying to express to others about their situation and that it is okay to reach out for help. The cast and creators of Call Me Crazy portrayed the hardships of dealing with a mental illness by expressing the signs of their disorder (logos), using director Bryce Dallas Howard’s past experience with mental illness (ethos), and displaying the inner and outer conflicts between those who are affected (pathos).

This book, which examines the physical basis of life, forms a part of the same mid-twentieth century information revolution as Claude Shannon's information theory, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics and John von Neumann's automata theory. It first asks, why atoms are so small compared to a human, or alternatively, why humans are so large compared to an atom, and answers that in a much smaller being quantum randomness and atomic discreteness (the analog of shot noise in electronics) would destroy life-giving processes. This may be true; however, the order of magnitude of size of human beings is a product of contingent events in the history of life on Earth; it does not follow from the first principles. A snake kills its victims with toxins and digests