Mental health model
From Psychology Wiki
Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help
Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World
Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Personality | Philosophy | Research Methods | Social | Statistics
Clinical: Approaches · Group therapy · Techniques · Types of problem · Areas of specialism · Taxonomies · Therapeutic issues · Modes of delivery · Model translation project · Personal experiences ·
The mental health model of psychological well-being regards the human mind on the model of a physical organism. Syndromes of behavior or thought which lead to distress are, in this model, regarded as "disorders" which are being "caused" by something other than one's own choices. This view is sharply at odds with traditional ethical and religious theories of human responsibility, which assert that what you choose to do is up to you.
By the 1930s the mental health model had assumed legal force in the English-speaking world. Pre-eminent among these was Sigmund Freud's classical theory of psychoanalysis, which is based on the philosophies of naturalism and the sort of determinism which "excludes the possibility of free will and sees current behaviour as entirely determined by the environment or past events". [1]
 This psychology-related article is a stub. You can help the Psychology Wiki by expanding it. |
| This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Mental health model. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
