A review of journal on nervous and mental disease

 A review of journal on nervous and mental disease

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Introduction

The study of counseling psychology entails details of the person history which helps in bringing out the underlying issues about their state of health. Nervous and mental diseases are ranked amongst the troublesome and expensive of human diseases when it comes to management. Mostly psychologists are concerned with the study of nervous and mental diseases of humans due to humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness. Most schools of thought discussing on psychology have identified five key themes predominantly featured in these definitions: states of consciousness, higher or ultimate potential, transcendence, and the spiritual. Though the field is big and touches on many aspect, the authors working on the journal of nervous and mental diseases have helped in putting all needed information under one volume(Budde,2010,pp 10-17).

What authors were trying to do

Psychological authors had a very strong insight when it came to patients especially the post therapeutic times. Authors were majorly concerned with influence on the patients rather the type of psychotherapy used by the therapist. Accordingly, most contemporary learning centers of psychotherapy laid emphasis on the healing power of the therapeutic relationship.

This edition was extensively discussed and even a debate held on psychotherapy where a former statistician studying primarily signs and manifestation with depressed patients, reported that ;psychotherapy could be more effective compared with placebo, he also alluded that no single treatment mode had the edge in efficacy, finally, he made an assertion that the factors common to varied psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist had established a good working alliance with the patient, accounted much more to the discrepancies in outcomes than modalities specific techniques.Whilst some report on the some postulated that by attempting to manualize or program treatment,psychotherapists may actually had been reducing in efficacy, although the unplanned approach of many psychotherapists could not appeal to clients motive to solve their state of health through the application of specific techniques in addition to their traditional approaches(Wilber,2004,pp39-48)

While much early work on this subject was generated from a psychodynamic perspective, authors from other orientations have since written a lot on it and It has been discovered that their alignment seem to predict treatment adherence and concordance together with the outcome across a range of patients diagnoses and treatment modalities.

Also authors aimed at bringing to fore the statistical power of the therapeutic approaches and the extratherapeutic influences like client motivation and the severity of the problems due to specific techniques used.

How the authors did it

Needless to say majority of the authors actually came from the some field of practice, and accessing both the secondary and primary data was easy. For instance the works on eating disorders-a disease, which had widely been written on and many packages published mainly by the American family physician, in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association. But this doesn’t mean the authors never put into consideration various aspects that to some extent serve as predisposing factors to neural and mental disease causation. A good analogy is when authors consider personality traits especially those associated with the increased problems on eating disorders.

At this point authors puts it that during adolescence these characters become intensified due to a wide range of cultural and physiological influences like, hormonal changes mostly related to puberty, stress associated with the approaching demands of socio-cultural influences and maturity and perceived expectations, especially in areas that concern body image.

The writers also used parameters on environment to exemplify their work. to the environment encompasses many aspects like the Child maltreatment, Social isolation, Cultural pressure, Peer pressure just to name a few. According to them, these factors do not necessarily have an immediate cause on neural and mental diseases but act gradually to produce effects.

Finally is worthy noting, that the successes of this work by the writers was accomplished through various collaborative work .For instance, they worked hand in hand field practitioners like psychologists ,peer group counselors and researchers who provided valuable information that saw this work perfectly completed(Azziz,2009,pp27-34)

What authors found out

The authors finding were based entirely on the treatment and responses thereof. Where by they argued that though diseases could easily be managed, different patients who sought out on medication had individualized feelings and behaviors instigated by their own thoughts instead of external forces such as other people, events, or situations; the idea was

to change how an individual thinks and responds to a situation even if the situation itself remained unchanged. In line with this, authors too touched on the need by patients to accept and commitment to therapy which they considered a center-stage towards a successful management.

Ideally, many patients showed some fear in the course of psychotherapeutic management whilst some patients were intentionally hid in the homes for fear of the untold stigmatization. Furthermore authors found that in the increasingly researchful and scientific world it was possible to counter to cognitive disorders by use of cognitive remediation therapy, which is based on a set of cognitive drills and some compensatory interventions used to enhance cognitive functioning(Mertizner,2005,pp117-129)

Personal view on the author’s findings

In the journal it is further postulated that as one the interventions to remedy this increasingly problematic conditions, religion should not be ignored and the use of cognitive remediation therapy. This must be fur fetched ideas and doctrines of many colorful personalities, in the name of spiritual teachers in the Western countries , such as Alice Bailey or Gurdjieff which have lately and oftenly been entrenched into the transpersonal psychology mainstream scene. This assertion is, generally, seen as dangerous to the aspiration of transpersonal psychologists to mount on a firm and respectable academic status. Since most psychologists incline to an eclectic approach.

Authors’ conclusion

The advocates of Transpersonal psychology most at times infer to themselves as the fourth wave surge of psychology which according to Maslow,even lives beyond

the self power of Humanistic psychology. Most authors reframes it that unlike the other schools of psychology i.e. psychoanalysis, behaviorism and humanistic psychology, which to some extend deny transcended part of soul, transpersonal psychology encompasses the whole spectrum which humans develop from prepersonality to transpersonality. In conclusion the authors lays it that transpersonal psychology could be considered the most integrated complete psychology, in other words it is referred to as a positive psychology par excellence.

Finally the authors view this from personality to transpersonality, neuroscience to Nirvana, mind to meditation, it is a complete a fully fletched science for all round treatment

and development.

References

Azziz, Robert (2009). Synchronicity and the Transformation of the Ethical in Jungian

Psychology, New Jersey: Greenwood

Budde, Stephanne L, Howard, Esther N.(2010). A journal on counseling psychology,

Vol 57(4), Issue 6, p400.

Mertinzer, Ralph (2005). . The Expansion of Consciousness, paperback, Berkeley, CA: Green

Earth Foundation & Regent Press

Wilber, Ken (2004). Let’s Nuke the Transpersonalists: A Response to Albert Ellis. Journal of

Counseling & Development, vol 67(3), Issue 7, p147.