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Mental health. Historically, mental disorders have had three major explanations, namely, the supernatural, biological and psychological models. [ 1] For much of recorded history, deviant behavior has been considered supernatural and a reflection of the battle between good and evil. When confronted with unexplainable, irrational behavior and by ...
This is a list of individuals whose creative sensibilities have been linked to their mental health. John Nash (1928–2015) was an American economist, noted for his contributions to game theory, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After undergoing several different treatments and therapies over the course of several decades, Nash ...
Apulian pottery depicting Lycrugus of Thrace, an ancient Greek king driven mad by Dionysus [1]. Mental illness in ancient Rome was recognized in law as an issue of mental competence, and was diagnosed and treated in terms of ancient medical knowledge and philosophy, primarily Greek in origin, while at the same time popularly thought to have been caused by divine punishment, demonic spirits, or ...
The National Alliance on Mental Illness ( NAMI) is a United States-based nonprofit organization [ 1] originally founded as a grassroots group by family members of people diagnosed with mental illness. NAMI identifies its mission as "providing advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by ...
The beginning of psychiatry as a medical specialty is dated to the middle of the nineteenth century, [ 5] although one may trace its germination to the late eighteenth century. Some of the early manuals about mental disorders were created by the Greeks. [ 5] In the 4th century BCE, Hippocrates theorized that physiological abnormalities may be ...
• Mental and emotional health were a particular burden on teens, with 54% of the 16- and 17-year-olds who took the survey saying the psychological issues had a negative impact on their overall ...
OCLC. 747804544. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness. It received much publicity, and has become a classic, well known as an argument that "mentally ill" is a label which ...
Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [ 7] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [ 8] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [ 9] which ...