Mental Conflicts and Personality.

Personality and Mental Illness

It is not easy to give a fair and adequate survey of this book within the compass of a short review. It embodies an ambitious attempt to endow concepts of mental illness with accuracy and precision. It also illustrates the more independent attitude adopted by some of the younger members of the psycho-analytical school. The author takes as the two basic personality types the Schizoid and the Syn...

Global Mental Health: concepts, conflicts and controversies.

This paper introduces, describes and analyses the emerging concept of Global Mental Health (GMH). The birth of GMH can be traced to London, 2007, with the publication of a series of high-profile papers in The Lancet. Since then, GMH has developed into a movement with proponents, adherents, opponents, an ideology and core activities. The stated aims of the Movement for GMH are 'to improve servic...

Personality Maladjustments and Mental Hygiene

case, unjustifiable. Of a text-book the student has a right to expect some manual upon which he may rely for a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the subject which he wishes to study, or an arranged and authoritative enquirewithin to which he may refer as need arises. Dr. Wallin's book does not satisfy these requirements. For one thing, it does not deal with the subject of mental hygiene...

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology When Conflicts Are Good: Nonconscious Goal Conflicts Reduce Confirmatory Thinking

Personality disorder and public mental health.

The diagnosis of personality disorder often appears to tell as much about the diagnoser as the diagnosed. For many it describes those who are deemed personally offensive, and as such it is not so much a diagnosis as a value judgment, the product of a negative interaction between two people that is given spurious respectability by a medical label. It is argued that these attitudes constitute a d...