Living Ethics about psychic energy and education

This chapter reviews multidisciplinary research from the fields of consumer behavior, humanistic and positive psychology, music education, and other areas to develop a new Transcendent Model of Motivation for Music Making. One’s “extended self” identity can be defined partly by possessions and mastery over objects, and objects can “complete” the self. Music making involves a person’s investment of “psychic energy,” including attention, time, learning, and efforts, and is a creative path which can lead to peak experiences and flow. Music making can help satisfy social needs, achieve self-actualization, experience self-transcendence, enhance well-being, strengthen spirituality, and improve the quality of life.

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An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia

History of Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0957154x211062534 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 0957154X2110625

Author(s):

Carlo Maggini ◽

Riccardo Dalle Luche

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Cognitive Impairment ◽

Dementia Praecox ◽

The Core ◽

Neurodevelopmental Model ◽

Psychic Energy ◽

Progressive Cognitive Impairment

Pre-Kraepelinian observations converged in Kahlbaum’s and Hecker’s description of Hebephrenia. For Kraepelin, Hebephrenia was an ‘idiopathic incurable dementia whose onset is in adolescence’. It became the core of ‘Dementia Praecox’, and then Bleulerian ‘Schizophrenia’. In recent decades, the resurgence of the ‘late neurodevelopment’ hypothesis of schizophrenia has brought into focus Hecker’s clinical reports of adolescents who, as a result of a putative loss of psychic energy, showed a rapidly progressive cognitive impairment leading to functional and behavioural disorganization. This paper summarizes the nineteenth-century conceptualization of Hebephrenia as a developmental illness.

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