Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mental health and its origins have been treated very differently across the ages.

• There was a greater emphasis on spiritual or supernatural causes of mental illness in the past.

• There have been variations in the humaneness of mental illness treatment throughout history, with much of treatment being barbaric or harmful until recent years.

• The first emphasis on a talking cure in psychology started with Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis.

• The DSM has evolved since it was first created in the 1940s, including some diseases and discarding other diseases over time.

• 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.

• There are several different paradigms or perspectives that exist today in the field of psychology.

• Culture and ethnicity have a great influence on mental health perceptions, manifestations, causation, and the receipt of mental health services.