Thank you, Waldemar. You are hitting on one of the most important ideas that drove my passion for a new system. I saw very early in my work as a clinician trained in psychosocial process that there were two different kinds of mental suffering.
One could be reasonably connected to brain malfunction, which you aptly label here “works incorrectly.” In contrast, there were maladaptive intrapsychic and interpersonal patterns, which you label “works ineffectively.” At the end of this note,
I will share some blogs on this topic.
Also, let me say thanks for drawing the attention to the UTUA Framework and Philosophy of One Divide. Prior to meeting up with Edward, I was emphasizing that a major maladaptive pattern was the way people related to their feelings. That
is, a part of them (the critical parent part of their narrator) had strong negative reactions to their negative feelings. This was an ineffective way of processing or relating to or metabolizing feelings because it lead to conflicts and vicious cycles inside
the person. I developed CALM MO as an integrative mindfulness tool that could help folks process conflict and distress in a much more effective way (i.e., would foster their capacity to achieve more adaptive states of living). Edward’s system allows us another
very powerful angle on “division” and conflict. Specifically, the divide between the True Self Flourishing and Generativity and False Self Emotional Warfare. This model of adaptive versus maladaptive functioning adds much clarity (and lines directly up with
the Matrix and Tripartite Model of Human Consciousness).
So, we are now in a place to clearly delineate ineffective or maladaptive from optimally effective and adaptive psychosocial processes. This is something the field has struggled with to get correct.
Best,
Gregg
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For some of my blogs on Mental Disorder and Disease, see:
When Does a Broken Heart Become
a Diagnosis?
Mental Disorders Vs Diseases
Is Psychiatry the Science of Lies?
Depression and
the Disease-Pill Model of Mental Health
Twenty Billion Fails to "Move
the Needle" on Mental Illness
Anxiety and Depression
are Symptoms, Not Diseases
Clarifying the Nature of Anxiety and
Depression
The Behavioral Shutdown Theory of Depression
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Gregg:
Good articles both, thank you.
I detect a pair of overlapping central premises:
Both have elements of truth and both revolve around the idea that the problem is either best understood or not understood at all through the lens of the biomedical model And, that the lack of or insufficiency of mental health is based
on some sort of intrinsic but faulty brain function - which one camp poses as a disease and the other as a disorder - a distinction without substantive difference.
Instead, envision how differently one conceptualizes behavioral (which includes mental) dysfunction if one acknowledges the differences between “mental disease” (the psychoses) and “mental disorder” (the neuroses) as follows:
The first brain is, to varying extents, constitutively incapable of working any better.
The latter is, to varying extents, not being utilized in the most effective fashion - even though it is constitutively capable of doing so.
The result of such apprehension is that there are both mental diseases and mental disorders (that are not
per se diseases).
Admittedly, we are poorly prepared to explain in full the etiology and processes involved in the psychoses or broken brains.
And, admittedly, there is an excess of attention to and agreement about the symptomatic content of the neuroses and far too little consensus about their underlying process/es.
From my perspective as a student of the processes of disease, that latter sentence is why the union of The One Divide Philosophy and the UTUA is so admirably important. The One Divide Philosophy provides an illuminating account and categorization
of the processes underlying the genesis of neuroses - using the brain less than maximally effectively. In complementary manner, the BPA Power/Threat/Meaning Framework contributes focused attention on the constructional content of the genesis of neuroses.
Together, these two depictions furnish an enlightening and liberating paradigm by which to apprehend the nature of “the lack of mental health” in the case of both neuroses and psychoses - though, admittedly, in the case of the broken brain,” the attention
doesn’t really look at the underlying problem/s upon which the “broken brain” is based.
Nonetheless, {The One Divide Philosophy + UTUA} paradigm is a logarithmic step forward in understanding the nature and treatment of those afflicted with less than satisfactory mental health - whatever name is applied to such infirmity.
As well, is a boon to all mens sanatores adunt (mind healers) - no matter their academic roots.
Best regards,
Waldemar
Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
(Perseveret et Percipiunt)
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