|
Great OP, op. Lotta good points ITT. Over the past hundred years or so there have been a few people who have tried to define Mental Health for the same purposes this thread tries to. Each of them had a way to measure mental health. I'll list them below (in very abbreviated terms): Freud - The more you've brought the unconscious to the conscious, the more mentally healthy you are. Satir - The better you can communicate, the more mentally healthy you are. Perls - Pieces of your Self have been shoved away for a number of reasons. The more pieces you've brought back the more mentally healthy you are. Melanie Klein - You think there is a good tittie and a bad tittie. That thinking makes you mentally unhealthy. If you can come to understand both titties are from the same person, you will be mentally healthy. Minuchin - Believes there is no such thing as mental health in an individual. There are only bad structures within a family system. Break the structures and set them right (as you would a bone). The better the structures, the more mentally healthy you/they are. Bowen - His measurement of mental health was called Differentiation. The more differentiated a person was from their family, the more mentally healthy they are. Jung - Same as Freud but better. Both he and Carl Whitaker believed there was no such thing as mental health. They would have thought this thread stupid and pedestrian (I do not, to be clear). “Psychopathology is proof of psychological health. The individual who is distorted in his thinking is essentially carrying on an open war in himself rather than capitulating to the social slavery. His delusion system and his hallucinations are a direct result of this war with his lifetime situation—the stresses of his living and his efforts to defeat those stresses rather than become a non-person and a social robot.” (Whitaker and Ryan, 1989) Jung used to say, "Bring me a sane man and I'll cure him." And Whitaker famously wrestled a client in the middle of therapy who had tackled him to the ground, so, ya know. thehandtruck fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jul 14, 2021 |
#
¿
Jul 14, 2021 18:11
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 18:16 |
|