History of Emotion and Mental Health

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This is a semester long course that focuses on the changing diagnosis, treatment, and attitudes toward mental health and emotional disorders, with a special emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. The course uses a variety of resources to study this development, including numerous patient and physician primary sources, medical records, and works of fiction, as well as relying heavily on field studies that make use of local resources, such as visits to former psychiatric facilities and current mental health centers.