Mental Health
Concepts and understanding of mental health and mental illness have changed throughout history and varied from one culture to another. For the most part mental health was not well described or defined; it was simply the absence of mental illness. Mental illness encompassed a wide range of problems but was generally understood as behavior that deviated from the majority of society.
Every culture establishes standards of behavior that it considers normal, natural, or healthy. Individuals whose actions do not conform to those standards are often labeled by society as abnormal, disturbed, or mentally ill. However, because such standards vary considerably from one time and place to another, it is extremely difficult…>> (read more)
Mental Health Points of View
5 Dissociative Identity Disorder Is a Common Response to Childhood Trauma
6 Behavior-Modifying Drugs Should Not Be Prescribed for Children
7 Electroconvulsive Therapy Causes Permanent Brain Damage
8 Legal System Should Not Allow for a Verdict of Guilty but Mentally Ill
9 Involuntary Commitment Laws Are Necessary
10 Effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Is Unsubstantiated
11 Involuntary Commitment Is Unconstitutional
12 Managed Care Does Not Benefit the Mentally Ill
13 Mental Health Should Be Treated on a Par with Physical Health
14 Mental Illness Is Too Broadly Defined
15 Physical Ailments Are Commonly Mistaken for Mental Illnesses
16 Mental Illness Should Be Destigmatized
17 Mental Illness Should Not Be Destigmatized
18 Drugs Can Remedy the Symptoms of Depression
19 Medication Helps Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
20 Biofeedback Therapy Improves Mental Conditions
21 Insanity Defense Is Legitimate
22 Legal System Should Not Allow Psychiatric Testimony
23 Psychoactive Drugs Successfully Treat Most Mental Illnesses
24 Legal System Should Allow for a Verdict of Guilty but Mentally Ill
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Mental Health in the News
Byline: Bob Egelko; Chronicle Staff Writer
Military veterans' advocates took their complaints of a dysfunctional mental health system to a federal appeals court Wednesday and were urged…>> (read more)
IS THERE A FORMULA--some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation--for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who…>> (read more)
Byline: John Wildermuth; Chronicle Staff Writer
In 2004, then-Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento helped write Proposition 63, a landmark ballot measure that taxed the richest Californians to…>> (read more)
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