Unit 4: Mental Illness

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Across
  1. 3. Acronym for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders [3]
  2. 6. Acronym for Common Mental Health Conditions, e.g. anxiety disorder or depression [4]
  3. 7. Goffman’s term for a place, such as an asylum or prison where a person loses all control over their lives and identity [5, 11]
  4. 10. Term used for institutions that dealt with mental illness in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries [6]
  5. 11. Type of sociologist who studies interactions between small groups of people [14]
  6. 12. Severe type of mental illness that leads a person to not distinguish their thoughts from reality – a type of psychosis [12]
  7. 13. Rosenhan’s term for the ‘fake’ people that went into a mental hospital in his study: ‘Being sane in insane places’ [6, 7]
  8. 16. Interactionists claim medical professionals have the power to … conditions that were previously viewed as personal or social problems [10]
  9. 18. Foucault argues our definition of mental illness was established in relation to what people in the 18th/19th centuries considered … behaviour [10]
  10. 19. Sociologist we associate most with the social realist and structural view of mental illness [5]
Down
  1. 1. Sociologist who claims mental illness is defined by those with power who establish the dominant discourse in order to exert social control over people [8]
  2. 2. Sociologist we associate with an ‘anti-psychiatry’ view of mental illness [5]
  3. 4. Goffman’s term for when a mental patient’s identity is lost and replaced by one defined by the mental hospital [12]
  4. 5. Model of mental illness that views it as an individual condition with observable symptoms that prevents a person from functioning adequately [10]
  5. 8. A dominant label that overrides all other labels or parts of someone’s personality [6, 6]
  6. 9. Legislation that enables medical professionals to section and detain people considered mentally ill [6, 5, 3]
  7. 14. Sociologist who views mental illness as a way to label a “Dustbin of bizarre behaviours” [6]
  8. 15. Scheff’s description of when people act in accordance to the stereotype and label of being mentally ill [8, 4]
  9. 17. Sociologist who (along with the Glasgow Media Group) found media representations of mental illness were largely negative [5]