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Mental health and its origins have been treated very differently across the ages.
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There was a greater emphasis on spiritual or supernatural causes of mental illness in the past.
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There have been variations in the humaneness of mental illness treatment throughout history, with much of treatment being barbaric or harmful until recent years.
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The first emphasis on a talking cure in psychology started with Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis.
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The DSM has evolved since it was first created in the 1940s, including some diseases and discarding other diseases over time.
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The DSM is symptom-based and does not have a great deal of reliability in the ability to make a consistent diagnosis, depending on the provider doing the diagnostic testing.
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There are several different paradigms or perspectives that exist today in the field of psychology.
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Culture and ethnicity have a great influence on mental health perceptions, manifestations, causation, and the receipt of mental health services.
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