In his last chapter, Karp states that his thesis can be explained by a theoretical equation; Medicalization + Disconnection + Postmodernitization = Personal Dislocation. With his equation, he explores the relationship each part of the equation has with each other and how they connect to cause depression. Karp states that depression is caused by “concatenation of social circumstance, individual temperament, and biochemistry” (Karp, 1996) Karp connects Depression to social factors such as culture, lack of social support, government policies, stigmatization, labeling, medialization. According to Karp, depression is normal response to the harmful social structure and to help depressed people to recover from the mental illness, deconstruction and…show more content… Medicalization is part of capitalistic American culture and it has a purpose of making profits and control the society. “Certain forms of behavior in children have become defined as a medical problem and medicine become a major agent for social control” (Conard, 2009). Capitalism and medialization have interlocking relationship as capitalism initiates medicalization and medicalization produces social control. Karp also includes the importance of having a stable job in his equation. He states that “we are what we do, our social value depends on our occupational status, our feelings of self-esteem and personal wellbeing are wrapped up in our work” (Karp, 1996). Our mental health depends on the kind of job we have or whether if we have a job or not. Therefore, unemployment causes more loss than the paycheck, it causes lack of self-esteem, and causes people to feel lifeless. Without a job people don’t feel good about themselves, are seen less desirable, and cannot support their families, and as Karp states such situation breeds depression that spreads easily from one generation to the…show more content… The ongoing change in the DSM book that lists mental illness diagnosis is a current example of the practice of unethical manipulation of data. New categorizes are added to DSM’s list and some data is being added to it because how we define things changes over time to favor the outcomes for people who have political agendas and financial gains. The science is a fact and it does not change. “One way we know that mental illnesses are not a fact, but that is socially constructed is how it changes over time and the changes are not by the science, it is mostly economic and political interests” (Roche, lecture) The fact that that diagnosis in the DSM, changes over the time concludes that it is political rather that scientific. Also the fact that the stakeholders outside of the psychiatric community have a saying what categories will be accepted in to the DSM and insurance companies influence and demand for changes into DSM proves that the psychiatry is socially
