The Argument of Mental Health Philosophy presents the epistemological context of mental health, arguing ‘mental health’ be used as the practical term as it accounts for and explains the functioning of psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and other disciplines that propose things about mental health and how to intervene in mental issue and disorder. Mental Health Philosophy accounts for the real functioning of people involved with mental health as phenomena, as that which accounts for and explains functioning in the greatest sense is termed ‘true’. By this discernment, disciplinary activity is pronounced more accurately, and due to this greater accuracy, promotes a larger field for understanding of what is happening and enhances the potential effectiveness of treatment for mental issues. By grounding material efforts in this substantive philosophy, the realization of Mental Health Philosophy will allow practitioners to have much less doubt in their ability, its adoption in pedagogical approaches to training (including its empirical scientific branches) will benefit the discipline of mental health overall, and the awareness it promotes will move the helping professions forward significantly.
Always there is pushback. This is the problem.
When we push back against my own experience I experience mental problems. This is so much the case that even as institutions such as psychology wish to help people with their issues, it works more often to promote, rather than solve, that the problem has greater dimensions than the person can handle. I find this to be, at minimum, disheartening.
It appears to me the world is filled with world-filling people;
mental health arises at the intersection of dealing with the Ego-congested psychological world.
The Argument of Mental Health Philosophy is a chapter in my upcoming book. It is an effort to bring individual people who struggle with psychology (including those in the helping professions) back to earth, so to speak. Back to what is actually happening.
Practically. Intelligently. Simply.
…Even as it might toke some effort.
Come back to Earth you wayward souls.
You are mattering