Chapter 12: Psychiatric understandings of mental health
1 .What should be the primary focus of mental health work such as psychiatry?
Answer: Understanding the patient as a person
2. Which professional discipline should be the dominant discipline in mental health services?
Answer: None: all disciplinary contributions, including nursing, should be democratically valued
3. What did Emil Kraepelin think caused the illness we now call schzophrenia?
Answer: Toxins produced in the sex glands
4. What does the earlier concept of mental hygiene mean?
Answer: The conditions and practices that help to maintain mental health
5. According to Fulford, which aspect of psychiatric practice should be celebrated more?
Answer: Emphasis on values
6. What is the placebo effect?
Answer: Medications seem to work because people believe in them
7. What is the healthiest attitude towards evidence based psychiatry?
