Mental health : a philosophical analysis / by Per-Anders Tengland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tengland, Per-Anders.

Series:

International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 9.

International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health--Philosophy.

Mental health.

Psychology, Pathological--Philosophy.

Psychology, Pathological.

Psychiatry--Philosophy.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

ix, 182 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

1.3 A structural synopsis of this book 4

1.5 The significance of an analysis of the notion of "positive mental health" 8

1.6 What is the mental? 9

1.7 On possible causes of mental health 10

Part 2 Some Attempts to Demarcate Mental Mealth

2. Psychiatry and positive ental health 15

2.1 Psychiatric textbooks and positive mental health 15

2.1.1 Concepts of health and disease 16

2.2 Psychiatric diagnostics and positive mental health 26

2.2.1 The Diagnosis of Mental Disorders 27

3. Psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology and positive mental health 35

3.1 Psychoanalysis 35

3.1.1 The goals of psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy 37

3.2 Humanistic Psychology 41

3.2.1 Carl Rogers on mental health 41

4. Marie Jahoda's Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health 47

4.1.1 Mental health as absence of mental disease 48

4.1.2 Normality 49

4.1.3 Well-being 49

4.2 Six groups of criteria for positive mental health 50

4.2.1 Attitudes toward the self 50

4.2.2 Growth, development, and self-actualization 52

4.2.3 Integration 53

4.2.4 Autonomy 54

4.2.5 Perception of reality 55

4.2.6 Environmental mastery 56

4.2.7 Some general comments 59

4.3 A discussion of the criteria proposed by Jahoda 60

4.3.1 Attitudes toward the self 60

4.3.2 Growth, development, and self-actualization 65

4.3.3 Integration 68

4.3.4 Autonomy 70

4.3.5 Perception of reality 70

4.3.6 Environmental mastery 72

Part 3 Toward a Theory of Positive Mental Health

5. Theories of health 81

5.2 Reznek's theory 82

5.3 Boorse's biostatistical theory 83

5.3.1 A Critique of Boorse's analytical theory 84

5.4 Nordenfelt's holistic theory 88

5.4.1 A critique of Nordenfelt's theory 89

5.6 Pestana's theory of mental health 94

6. An analysis and a quasi-empirical investigation of some mental abilities 97

6.1.1 Acceptable mental health 97

6.1.2 The concept "ability" 100

6.1.3 A choice of mental features to be further discussed 102

6.1.4 Well-being and the absence of ill-being 103

6.2 Cognitive abilities 104

6.2.1 Memory 105

6.2.2 Correct Perception of Reality 105

6.2.3 Rationality 107

6.2.4 Problem-Solving Capacity 114

6.2.5 Flexibility and Creativity 117

6.3 Feelings 122

6.3.1 Emotions, moods, and sensations 122

6.4 Self-related attitudes 127

6.4.1 Self-knowledge 127

6.4.2 Self-confidence and Self-esteem 129

6.5 Autonomy 130

6.6 Social abilities 133

6.6.1 The mental ability to communicate 133

6.6.2 The pragmatics of communication 136

6.7 Co-operation 136

6.8.1 Potentiality and actuality 138

6.8.2 Syndrome 139

7. Toward a Material Theory of Acceptable Mental Health 141

7.1 Acceptable mental health as practical rationality and the ability to co-operate 142

7.1.1 The ability of practical rationality 142

7.1.2 The ability to co-operate 147

Part 4 Consequences and Conclusion

8. The Value of a Conceptual Analysis for Measuring Mental Health 153

8.1 Psychotherapy outcome research 153

8.1.1 Some general problems in outcome research 153

8.1.2 A manual for assessing progress in psychotherapy 157

8.2 Health-measuring instruments 161

8.2.1 The Mental Health Inventory 162

8.2.2 The General Health Questionnaire 165

9.2 Two possible objections 169

9.2.1 Gender 169

9.2.2 Morality 170

9.2.3 Personality 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and indexes.

ISBN:

1402001797

OCLC:

48361703