HDFS339 Lecture 14: hdfs339 14

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS339
• Professor: Michael Ferrari

Document Summary

Mental health: whats mental health, different than physical? i. Physical health is more obvious: opinion of thinking yourself out of mental illness, instead of obvious signs of physical health iii. All mental processes even the most complex psychological processes derive from the operations of the brain: central tenet of this view is that we commonly say the mind is carried out by the brain iv. Counterview: 2 serious problems, 1 is dehumanizing having a narrow neurobiological focus that discounts the uniqueness of the individual and the meaning of inner personal experience. And second it is isn coherent : we could with equal logic that is a tree disease can be cured by chem of soil, then tree disease but be soil disorders, aka trees are soil i. These are reductionist theories: reduce the issue of mental health, think all therapies are useless v.