Personal Identity and Mental Health

2001 ◽  
pp. 203-211
Author(s):  
Eric Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Identity

Identity and Agency

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Graham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Identity And Agency

Even the best moral principles for patient care and psychiatric ethics are likely to be misapplied or stumble in clinical practice, without sound and sensible recognition of how to understand the concepts of a patient’s personal identity and self-responsible or reflective agency. In this chapter I sketch an account of how personal identity and self-responsible agentive capacity are best described for understanding mental illness and in clinical practice. The account aims to be true to the subjective experience of reflective personhood and self-responsible agency as well as to the perspective of the mental health care clinician. Special attention is given to certain background moral principles that help to clinically frame the importance of patient identity and agency.

scholarly journals NURTURING THE ANTI-FRAGILE STUDENT : The Barbell Strategy and Academic Excellence sans the Strain

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alwyn Lau
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Asian Students ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Theoretical Paper

It is a common but not unrealistic stereotype of Asian students that educational success is a matter of personal identity and status. As such, achieving distinctions in as many subjects as possible (the popular target of becoming a ‘straight A’ student) is usually a non-negotiable objective nurtured by both parents and educators. Such an obsessive pursuit of academic excellence produces both laudable outcomes (e.g. the tendency of Asian students to outperform their counterparts) as well as dangerous ones (e.g. worrying rates of mental health problems). This theoretical paper hopes to apply the concept of anti-fragility developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb─in particular one of its methods known as the Barbell Strategy─towards student learning, in the hope of a) maintaining a trajectory of academic excellence whilst b) avoiding the psychological pressures which usually accompany Asian students.

The dialogue with alterity: narratives and the dialectic of identity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Basic Form

This chapter introduces the notion of ‘alterity’. The ‘You’ may take several forms in human life that are essential for personal identity and becoming. We may collectively call ‘alterity’ these forms of the ‘You’. Experiencing oneself as a person involves more than a sense of self-sameness. Our identity as a human person is a narrative identity that stems from the dialectics between what we are and the alterity that we encounter in our life. It introduces the concept of ‘narrative identity’ as one basic form of dialogue with alterity. Mental health is the equilibrate dialectic and proportion between sedimentation and innovation, that is, between the alterity that comes manifest through the encounter with one’s un-chosen, ‘involuntary’ disposition or with an event, and the capacity of the person to cope with, modulate, appropriate, and make sense of them.

The Nature of Memory: Controversies about Retrieved Memories and the Law of Evidence

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine Wood All
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Early Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Law Of Evidence

The psychological debate about the nature of memory has taken center stage in Canadian courtrooms. Retrieved-memory cases have sparked a controversy within the mental health and legal disciplines. Some experts argue that early memories of abuse that have been repressed cannot be fully retrieved in adulthood without major distortion. Others say that such memories could not be repressed at all, while still others contend that false memories may easily be implanted by therapists. While the very nature of memory is intangible, Canadian courts must find ways, by altering evidentiary procedures, to come closer to probabilities of truth. When we question the nature of memory we foray into theories of consciousness. Thus courts face the difficult task of seeking the truth about the past when the past itself is filtered through memory. Since memory necessarily involves the rewriting of personal identity through the subjective reinterpretation of the past, traditional procedures in the law of evidence must be reexamined and ultimately relaxed in the context of retrieved-memory cases.

scholarly journals Navigating LGBTQ+ discrimination in academia: where do we go from here?

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Boustani ◽  
Kirk A. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Common Observation ◽  
And Mathematics

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and sexually/gender diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals have long been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and these environments have often been portrayed as spaces in which personal identity does not matter. However, for LGBTQ+ individuals, this means suppressing their gender identity and expression and remaining closeted at work, creating an uncomfortable work environment, and this can affect their performance and mental health. Multiple reports have been published within the last decade investigating the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in science. These reports all highlight a common observation that, at some point in their time within science, the majority of individuals have experienced discrimination due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. Here, in our opinion piece, we discuss our experiences of being LGBTQ+ in bioscience, the various types of discrimination that LGBTQ+ scientists may face in academia and some of the existing initiatives and campaigns in place to combat this.

Contagion, Identity, Misinformation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis C. Charland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Challenges

The evolution of the internet and associated social media pose novel challenges for psychiatric ethics. Issues surrounding emotional contagion, personal identity, and misinformation figure importantly among these new challenges, with important consequences for consumers of mental health services, as well as psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. The evolution of the internet and associated social media pose novel challenges for psychiatric ethics. Issues surrounding emotional contagion, personal identity, and misinformation figure importantly among these new challenges, with important consequences for consumers of mental health services, as well as psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Personhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 334-343
Author(s):  
René Rosfort
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Phenomenological Psychopathology

Personhood plays a fundamental, but obscure role in contemporary mental health care. The notion is of vital importance to phenomenological psychopathology because it articulates the interplay of autonomy and heteronomy, self and otherness, at work in mental suffering. The complexity of personhood is connected with the circumstance that to be a person is both a fact and a norm. To see every human being (ourselves as well as the other) as a person is a normative task that is rooted in the fact that a human being is an individual being who experiences herself as a unique and irreplaceable person. This experience of being a person is more than a sense of selfhood. It involves an otherness (e.g. body, world, other people) that is constitutive of our personal identity. Narrative explorations of the fragility of personal identity can help us to make sense of mental suffering.

Psychopathologic Problems in Twins During Childhood

1976 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bernabei ◽  
Gabriel Levi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Case History ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
History Of

Some Psychopathologic problems occurring during childhood in twins are discussed from the point of view of mental health. On the basis of case history of twins affected by neurologic or psychiatric disorders some typical situations have been examined: (1) Psychopathologic problems arising from perinatal death of the cotwin; (2) Psychopathologic problems arising from the death of the cotwin during late childhood; (3) Psychopathologic problems arising in the pair from organic or neuropsychaitric event in one of the twins; (4) Psychopathologic problems of the twins due to disorders of personal identity and the interaction between the twins. The cases are analyzed from a psychodynamic point of view, in relation to the development of personality in the twins, and from a psychosocial point of view, in relation to the cultural stereotype of the twins during the socialization process and in the context of parental dynamics.

Retirement preparation program in the old people national politics and nurse participation

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Silvana Sidney Costa Santos
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Old People ◽  
Retirement Preparation ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Historical Retrospect

RESUMOA aposentadoria pode trazer implicações negativas, como: diminuição dos rendimentos; perda do referencial de trabalho; perda da identidade pessoal; sentimentos de inutilidade sócio-psicológica; problemas de saúde física e mental. O Programa de Preparação para a Aposentadoria é uma tentativa de levar o pré-aposentado a discutir e pensar alternativas de atividades para um melhor enfrentamento após a aposentadoria. O objetivo deste artigo foi realizar uma reflexão acerca da relevância do Programa de Preparação para Aposentadoria nas empresas, partindo dos pressupostos da Política Nacional do Idoso e mostrando a participação da enfermeira nessa atividade. Inicialmente, realizou-se uma breve retrospectiva histórica da Política Nacional do Idoso, enfatizando as questões relacionadas ao preparo dos trabalhadores para aposentadoria; em seguida apresentou-se uma proposta de um Programa de Preparação para Aposentadoria e, finalmente, apontou-se à participação da enfermeira na organização, implantação e implementação do Programa. Palavras-chave: Enfermagem; Idoso; Aposentadoria; Política de saúde.ABSTRACTThe retirement can bring negative implications, such as: income reduction, loss of work referential, loss of the personal identity, feelings of psycho-social uselessness, physical and mental health problems. The Retirement Preparation Program (PPA) is a try to take the pre-retired to discuss and think about alternatives of activities for one better confrontation of the retirement. This article aim was to make a reflection about the importance of the Retirement Preparation Program in the companies, taking from estimates of the Old People National Politics and showing the nurses participation in this activity. Firstly, we made a brief historical retrospect of the Old People National Politics, emphasizing the questions about the workers preparing to retirement; after it we show the propose of the Retirement Preparation Program (PPA) and, finally, we pointed the participation of the nurse in the organization, implementation and implantation of the PPA. Keywords: Nurse; Old; Retirement; Health Politic.RESUMENLa Jubilación  puede traer implicaciones negativas, como: disminución de los rendimientos; pérdida del referencial de trabajo; pérdida de la identidad personal; sentimientos de inutilidad socio-psicológico; problemas de salud física y mentales. Programa de Preparación para la Jubilación es una tentativa de llevar los pré-jubilados a discutir y pensar alternativas de actividades para un mejor enfrentamiento después de la jubilación. El objetivo de este artículo fue realizar una reflexión acerca de la relevancia del Programa de Preparación para la Jubilación en las empresas, partiendo de los presupuestos de la Política Nacional del Anciano y mostrar la participación de la enfermera universitaria en esta actividad. Inicialmente, se realizó una pequeña retrospectiva histórica de la Política Nacional del Anciano, destacando las cuestiones relacionadas al preparo de los trabajadores para la jubilación; enseguida se presentó una propuesta de un Programa de Preparación para la Jubilación y finalmente, se señaló  la participación de la enfermera universitaria en la organización, implantación y implementación del Programa. Palabras clave: Enfermería; Anciano; Jubilación; Política de salud.

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