Mental Health

A Philosophical Analysis

By: P.-A. Tengland

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Hardcover | 30 November 2001

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Mental health issues are a growing concern in our modern Western society. This is part of an increasing interest in questions about health, quality of life, personal development, and self-fulfilment. However, most of what has been written so far has had its focus on mental illness or disease, the negative side of the coin, and few attempts have been made to discuss more thoroughly, from a philosophical perspective, what it is to be mentally healthy. The present book is such an attempt.
The author's aim is to analyze, philosophically, the notion of `positive mental health'. In so doing a number of ideas found in the literature are presented and discussed. The author also raises some important methodological questions. The final result of the analysis is a formal and a material reconstruction of the concept of "positive mental health".
The book will be of value to all professionals within the health care sector, in particular to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and psychotherapists. It will also be of interest to philosophers and social scientists working with health questions.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introducting the Subject
Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 1
Purpose	p. 3
A structural synopsis of this book	p. 4
Method	p. 6
The significance of an analysis of the notion of "positive mental health"	p. 8
What is the mental?	p. 9
On possible causes of mental health	p. 10
A summary of this book	p. 10
Some Attempts to Demarcate Mental Mealth
Psychiatry and positive ental health	p. 15
Psychiatric textbooks and positive mental health	p. 15
Concepts of health and disease	p. 16
Conclusion	p. 25
Psychiatric diagnostics and positive mental health	p. 26
The Diagnosis of Mental Disorders	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 34
Psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology and positive mental health	p. 35
Psychoanalysis	p. 35
The goals of psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy	p. 37
Conclusions	p. 40
Humanistic Psychology	p. 41
Carl Rogers on mental health	p. 41
Conclusion	p. 44
Marie Jahoda's Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Mental health as absence of mental disease	p. 48
Normality	p. 49
Well-being	p. 49
Six groups of criteria for positive mental health	p. 50
Attitudes toward the self	p. 50
Growth, development, and self-actualization	p. 52
Integration	p. 53
Autonomy	p. 54
Perception of reality	p. 55
Environmental mastery	p. 56
Some general comments	p. 59
A discussion of the criteria proposed by Jahoda	p. 60
Attitudes toward the self	p. 60
Growth, development, and self-actualization	p. 65
Integration	p. 68
Autonomy	p. 70
Perception of reality	p. 70
Environmental mastery	p. 72
Conclusion	p. 77
Toward a Theory of Positive Mental Health
Theories of health	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Reznek's theory	p. 82
Boorse's biostatistical theory	p. 83
A Critique of Boorse's analytical theory	p. 84
Conclusion	p. 87
Nordenfelt's holistic theory	p. 88
A critique of Nordenfelt's theory	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 93
Pestana's theory of mental health	p. 94
An analysis and a quasi-empirical investigation of some mental abilities	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Acceptable mental health	p. 97
The concept "ability"	p. 100
A choice of mental features to be further discussed	p. 102
Well-being and the absence of ill-being	p. 103
Cognitive abilities	p. 104
Memory	p. 105
Correct Perception of Reality	p. 105
Rationality	p. 107
Problem-Solving Capacity	p. 114
Flexibility and Creativity	p. 117
Feelings	p. 122
Emotions, moods, and sensations	p. 122
Self-related attitudes	p. 127
Self-knowledge	p. 127
Self-confidence and Self-esteem	p. 129
Autonomy	p. 130
Social abilities	p. 133
The mental ability to communicate	p. 133
The pragmatics of communication	p. 136
Co-operation	p. 136
Summary	p. 137
Potentiality and actuality	p. 138
Syndrome	p. 139
Toward a Material Theory of Acceptable Mental Health	p. 141
Acceptable mental health as practical rationality and the ability to co-operate	p. 142
The ability of practical rationality	p. 142
The ability to co-operate	p. 147
Conclusion	p. 150
Consequences and Conclusion
The Value of a Conceptual Analysis for Measuring Mental Health	p. 153
Psychotherapy outcome research	p. 153
Some general problems in outcome research	p. 153
A manual for assessing progress in psychotherapy	p. 157
Health-measuring instruments	p. 161
The Mental Health Inventory	p. 162
The General Health Questionnaire	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 167
Summary	p. 167
Two possible objections	p. 169
Gender	p. 169
Morality	p. 170
Personality	p. 171
Final remarks	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 173
Subject Index	p. 179
Name Index	p. 181
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