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A Manifesto for Mental HealthMaking Sense of Things

A Manifesto for Mental Health: Making Sense of Things [We are born as natural learning engines, with highly complex but very receptive brains, ready to understand and then engage with the world. As a consequence of the events we experience in life, we develop mental models of the world, including the social world. We then use these mental models to guide our thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Our social circumstances, and our biology, influence our emotions, thoughts and behaviours—our mental health—through their effects on how we have learned to make sense of, and respond to, the world. This puts psychology at the centre of discussions about mental health, but also adds something to the ‘nature-nurture’ debate. Seeing our mental health as the consequence of normal, understandable, psychological processes, rather than ill-defined and elusive ‘illnesses’, offers an opportunity radically to re-conceptualise mental health services.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Manifesto for Mental HealthMaking Sense of Things

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-24385-2
Pages
81 –101
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-24386-9_4
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[We are born as natural learning engines, with highly complex but very receptive brains, ready to understand and then engage with the world. As a consequence of the events we experience in life, we develop mental models of the world, including the social world. We then use these mental models to guide our thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Our social circumstances, and our biology, influence our emotions, thoughts and behaviours—our mental health—through their effects on how we have learned to make sense of, and respond to, the world. This puts psychology at the centre of discussions about mental health, but also adds something to the ‘nature-nurture’ debate. Seeing our mental health as the consequence of normal, understandable, psychological processes, rather than ill-defined and elusive ‘illnesses’, offers an opportunity radically to re-conceptualise mental health services.]

Published: Sep 23, 2019

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