HLTHAGE 1CC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Belief, Psychopathology
11 Mar 2020
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It not literally a thing or physical object obviously and can only exist in the same sort of way other theoretical concepts "exist" All problems in living are attributed to psychochemical processes which will be discovered by medical research. Regarded as no different than other disease. Not an emotion but rather blindness or paralysis of body. Persons belief cannot be explained by defect or disease in the nervous system: communications about ourselves and the world about us as mere symptoms. Error not to mistakes in observation but rather the way we organize and express our knowledge. Error lies in making a symmetrical dualism between mental and physical symptoms. Those who regard mental symptoms as signs of brain disease the concept of mental illness is unnecessary and misleading. People labeled suffer from diseases of the brain. Mental illness as a name for problems in living. Used to identify some feature of an individuals personality.
