User:EverSince/Mental disorder outline

Mental illness, or mental disorder

History

 * Ancient Greece, Rome & the Middle East
 * Medieval
 * Asylums, professions, treatments
 * Activism
 * Deinstitutionization, community care

Professional perspectives

 * Psychiatry, Anti-psychiatry and post-psychiatry
 * Psychoanalysis
 * Psychology
 * Public health
 * Sociology

Lay Perspectives

 * Folk psychology
 * Media
 * Stigma
 * Terminology

Definition and Classification

 * Normality and abnormality: statistical, ideal, distorted
 * Harmful dysfunction, prototypes
 * Categorical vs dimensional vs spectrum
 * Neo-Kraepelinian - DSM & ICD & CCMD

Causes & Influences

 * Evolution
 * Genes & Environment
 * Individual development and family
 * Societies and cultures
 * Economic and political structures

Varying factors

 * Ethnicity
 * Gender
 * Age

Treatment and Services

 * Cure
 * Maintenance
 * Recovery

Legal issues and human rights

 * Voluntary and involuntary treatment
 * Discrimination and Rights