Sociology of Mental Illness

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In this course students examine mental health and illness, and mental health care systems in the U.S. and other industrialized and non-industrialized societies. This includes the processes involved in identifying and recruiting patients into the mental health care system; a social analysis of psychotherapy, including talk therapies, medications, electro-convulsive treatment and psychosurgery; and social organization of mental hospitals and of community mental health centers; socio-legal issues related to mental illness; and a review and synthesis of social psychological and sociological theories relevant to understanding mental health and illness. Prerequisite: CRIM 115 or SOC 110 or SOC 120 or ANT 101 or PSY 100 . Offered Occasionally.