Mental Illness as a Socially Constructed Disease

Mentally ill confined if had "need for treatment" -- triumph of medical model of mental illness. Social Revolution of 1960's. By 1960's large numbers of people confined in mental institutions (e.g., 1963: 679,000 in mental institutions, 250,000 in prisons). ................
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