Developmental failure and psychic conflict.

Stolorow, Robert D.; Brandchaft, Bernard

doi:10.1037/0736-9735.4.3.241

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“…This Act prohibited the promotion of homosexuality by teaching or publishing material in schools in England, Wales and Scotland. Consensus of opinion (Stolorow & Brandchaft 1987) suggests that to enjoy mental health one needs to be true to one's own identity and develop a positive self concept. The positive nurturing of children is crucial to this process and to deny the child's sexual identity through a restrictive programme of mental health promotion would only compromise the effectiveness of mental health professional practice.…”

Section: English Mental Health Policy: the Role Of The Mental Health mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ignoring the evidence dictating the practice: sexual orientation, suicidality and the dichotomy of the mental health nurse

McAndrew

Warne

2004

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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International epidemiological studies demonstrate that gay and bisexual males are four times more likely to report a serious suicide attempt than their heterosexual counterparts. Data on completed suicides, usually derived from mortality statistics misrepresent the rate of suicides among homosexual populations. However, an increasing number of studies comparing representative samples of gay, lesbian and bisexual youths with heterosexual controls demonstrate increased rates of mental health problems and subsequent suicide among the homosexual population. Homosexual orientation must therefore be considered a risk factor for mental distress and as such should be a focus for any contemporary public health agenda. One of the difficulties of addressing the problem through a public health agenda is the juxtaposition proffered by our political and social environment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder ceased to define homosexuality as pathological in 1973 replacing it with a new 'illness' of 'gender identity disorder'. Until recently in England, Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988), forbidding the promotion of homosexuality, further reinforced negativity towards this group of people. This compounded the negative mental health consequences for those developing a gay sexual orientation in a climate of heterosexism. Current health care policy in England concerns itself with the rising number of suicides among young people but fails to acknowledge the importance of the research findings relating to gay people by integrating them into the development of mental health policy. This paper reviews the literature relating to homosexual people and suicidality, and addresses the seriousness of a policy rhetoric which results from ignoring the evidence while dictating mental health nursing practice.

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Section: English Mental Health Policy: the Role Of The Mental Health mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ignoring the evidence dictating the practice: sexual orientation, suicidality and the dichotomy of the mental health nurse

McAndrew

Warne

2004

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Mental health experts and participants in the child abuse and neglect movement have focused increasingly on psychological or emotional abuse and neglect, as it may be the most insidious, prevalent, and destructive form of childhood abuse (Garbarino et al, 1986;Hart & Brassard, 1987;McGee & Wolfe, 1991). For instance, one can imagine a physically abused child still experiencing inner psychological freedom to have his or her own thoughts and feelings, but psychological freedom could be largely eliminated if the assault is directed to the thoughts and feelings themselves (Stolorow & Brandchaft, 1987). Such head-on confrontation is actually an attack on the core machinery of a child's personal intelligence, because it obstructs and damages the capacity to know and understand oneself and others, including even the capacity to know that one has been abused (Fonagy et al, 1995;Hart & Brassard, 1987;Shengold, 1989).…”

Section: Personal Intelligence In Borderline Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding.

Anderson¹

1999

Psychotherapy Research

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Personal intelligence refers to information-processing capacities about psychological characteristics of self and others. Gardner (1983) described two kinds of personal intelligence. Intrapersonal intelligence is defined as a capacity for "access to one's own feeling lifeóone's range of affects or emotions: the capacity instantly to effect discriminations among these feelings and, eventually, to label them, to enmesh them in symbolic codes, to draw upon them as a means of understanding and guiding one's behavior" (p. 239). More recently Gardner (1993a, 1993b) stated that having an accurate model of oneself, which is necessary for effective decision making, is also an essential element of intrapersonal intelligence. Interpersonal intelligence is defined as "the ability to notice and make distinctions among other individuals and, in particular, among their moods, temperaments, motivations, and intentions" (1983, p. 239). This intelligence includes the "capacity to place one's self into the skin of specific other individuals" (p. 250). Such capacity can involve the ability to understand and predict the behaviors of others, to work appropriately and cooperatively with others, as well as to empathizeóthat is, to accurately experience the feelings and motivations of another person from the perspective of that other person (1983, 1993b). Gardner first identified personal intelligence in his landmark book, Frames of Mind: TJie Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983). He defined human intelligence as: "The ability to solve problems, or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural or community settings." (1993b, pp. 7, 15-16). Gardner provided detailed evidence that there are at least six relatively independent or modular categories of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and personal. He identified these intelligence constructs using specific prerequisites and criteria including: (a) evidence for basic information-processing mechanisms that are activated by certain kinds of internally or exter

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“…Recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and technique have deepened our understanding of early object relations and their significance for self-development of the person. The main conclusion in these works indicates that basic to the development of ego strength, is the person's capacity to integrate affects (Killingmo 1989;Stolorow 1987). To develop secure and productive helping relationships, especially with clients with f d u r e s in self skucture, it is highly important for the helper to be willing to work with, understand and share the feelings of the clients.…”

Section: Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%