DST 500 MIDTERM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 2025.
Mental Health Literacy - ANSWER: Dominant discourse of how we take up, understand and
respond to madness.
SIGNS, BELIEFS, TREATMENTS
Social Perspective - ANSWER: Take madness into account WITH; food security, housing,
education, income, etc.
Why call it Madness? - ANSWER: To regain/take back the power of the word. Was also the
word first used for 'mentally ill' prior to the medical model.
How does Mental Health Literacy evade social justice issues important to mad people? -
ANSWER: - no evidence that knowing more about medical model makes mad peoples lives
better
- never accounts for diverse experiences; always generalized
- positions madness within physical body
- pretends system doesnt impact people in forced way
Wandering Womb - ANSWER: Woman's womb w/o sexual activity will dislodge, wander and
rest on other organs - causing hysteria.
Philippe Pinel - ANSWER: Famous painting, releasing lunatics from chains at salpetriere.
"YOU CAN CURE MAD PEOPLE IF YOU TREAT THEM HUMANELY"
Alienists - ANSWER: Early psychiatry believed in distancing the mad from the rest of the world
in asylums.
Jean-Martin Charcot - ANSWER: Developed the concept that madness is linked to the brain,
helped remove gender roles and allow for unified understanding. (19th century)
, Hysteria - ANSWER: Popular concept in 19th century, (Andre Brouillette famous painting of
neurologist)
Aka. "widows disease". Women would gain it from no intercourse.
Schizophrenic Double Bind - ANSWER: Theoretical framework noted schizophrenia in men,
came from bad mothering of childhood. (Homosexuality also a cause).
Drapetomania - ANSWER: Samuel Cartwright in 1800's hypothesized African-Americans were
naturally subservient and when desiring to escape master, were mentally ill.
Cure for drapetomania? - ANSWER: A kind master or flogging.
Treppaning - ANSWER: Procedure where you drill a hole in the skull, one of the oldest
procedures perfomed. Lets evil spirits out.
Hippocrates Four Humours - ANSWER: BLACK BILE, YELLOW BILE, PHLEGM, BLOOD
(Human moods = caused by bodily fluids)
DSM - ANSWER: Defines what is madness. Currently on 5th edition. Causes shifts in things we
previously understood to be immoral.
DSM in 1973? - ANSWER: Vote to remove homosexuality from designation.
Nymphomanias was classified how? - ANSWER: The term first appeared in Blanchard and
French Encyclopedia caught on amongst the public. Previously called 'madness from the
womb'.
Cures for nymphomania? - ANSWER: - Blood drawn
- Stop period
- Purgation
- Bath with herbs
- Cooling ointments on loins, privates
- Plate of lead on reins
- Marry her to young lusty man
- Midwife rubs genitals
- Rub belly in bath to release semen
How has post-WW2 Psychiatry tied the idea of homosexuality to an illness? - ANSWER: -
Predominantly accepted in lower classes, such as mental hospitals
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COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 2025.
Mental Health Literacy - ANSWER: Dominant discourse of how we take up, understand and
respond to madness.
SIGNS, BELIEFS, TREATMENTS
Social Perspective - ANSWER: Take madness into account WITH; food security, housing,
education, income, etc.
Why call it Madness? - ANSWER: To regain/take back the power of the word. Was also the
word first used for 'mentally ill' prior to the medical model.
How does Mental Health Literacy evade social justice issues important to mad people? -
ANSWER: - no evidence that knowing more about medical model makes mad peoples lives
better
- never accounts for diverse experiences; always generalized
- positions madness within physical body
- pretends system doesnt impact people in forced way
Wandering Womb - ANSWER: Woman's womb w/o sexual activity will dislodge, wander and
rest on other organs - causing hysteria.
Philippe Pinel - ANSWER: Famous painting, releasing lunatics from chains at salpetriere.
"YOU CAN CURE MAD PEOPLE IF YOU TREAT THEM HUMANELY"
Alienists - ANSWER: Early psychiatry believed in distancing the mad from the rest of the world
in asylums.
Jean-Martin Charcot - ANSWER: Developed the concept that madness is linked to the brain,
helped remove gender roles and allow for unified understanding. (19th century)
, Hysteria - ANSWER: Popular concept in 19th century, (Andre Brouillette famous painting of
neurologist)
Aka. "widows disease". Women would gain it from no intercourse.
Schizophrenic Double Bind - ANSWER: Theoretical framework noted schizophrenia in men,
came from bad mothering of childhood. (Homosexuality also a cause).
Drapetomania - ANSWER: Samuel Cartwright in 1800's hypothesized African-Americans were
naturally subservient and when desiring to escape master, were mentally ill.
Cure for drapetomania? - ANSWER: A kind master or flogging.
Treppaning - ANSWER: Procedure where you drill a hole in the skull, one of the oldest
procedures perfomed. Lets evil spirits out.
Hippocrates Four Humours - ANSWER: BLACK BILE, YELLOW BILE, PHLEGM, BLOOD
(Human moods = caused by bodily fluids)
DSM - ANSWER: Defines what is madness. Currently on 5th edition. Causes shifts in things we
previously understood to be immoral.
DSM in 1973? - ANSWER: Vote to remove homosexuality from designation.
Nymphomanias was classified how? - ANSWER: The term first appeared in Blanchard and
French Encyclopedia caught on amongst the public. Previously called 'madness from the
womb'.
Cures for nymphomania? - ANSWER: - Blood drawn
- Stop period
- Purgation
- Bath with herbs
- Cooling ointments on loins, privates
- Plate of lead on reins
- Marry her to young lusty man
- Midwife rubs genitals
- Rub belly in bath to release semen
How has post-WW2 Psychiatry tied the idea of homosexuality to an illness? - ANSWER: -
Predominantly accepted in lower classes, such as mental hospitals
RE-READ
