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2001
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Journal Article
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psychopathology, Gestalt psychology, Gestalt theory, mental health, taxonomy, psychiatry, clinical psychology, Kurt Lewin, field theory, life-space
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Psychology
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http://gestalttheory.net/gth/
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English
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103-405-075
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2004/12/20 02:52:24 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
Kurt Lewin wrote briefly, but with considerable depth, about his conjectural ideas about mental disorder, termed ”Unreality”, and primarily from a developmental point of view. This paper, based upon this author‘s studies of Lewin and his theorizing about the growth of levels of reality, and boundaries, will discuss some theorized bases of major mental disturbances as they would be explained, and explainable, according to Lewinian field theory. To some degree comparison will be made with other major theories about the development of these disorders. A topological psychology perspective of the major features of select mental disorders from DSM IIIR will be presented, and with this the postulated central features of those disorders according to a Lewinian analysis. Some special attention will be paid to disorders that have been elusive to both etiology explanation, and cure, in traditional viewpoints in psychiatry and clinical psychology. By way of conclusion it will be suggested that, and where, classical Lewinian field theory may have a whole other analysis available to the study of mental disorders and to some specific conditions that have been elusive according to other, historically ”clinical” theories. Printed and projected pictures of Lewinian figures will accompany the talk if/where possible).
We have elaborated ways in which a Lewinian topological system of thought can be concurred with other ways of viewing pathological process, particularly utilizing the ways those processes are seen by psychoanalytic thinking, and to a lesser degree utilizing the ways those processes are seen in behavioral psychology thinking.
It may not be beyond reason to go further than to illustrate clinical syndromes in a new way, using what has been basically a theoretical explanatory system from social psychology, and to then try and use the kinds of insights that using that system can suggest, to construct insights into the very etiology of mental disturbances. If this social psychological model of viewing behavior and mental process can illustrate areas of pathology that have been the province almost entirely of other types of theories, one can try and move from the descriptive to the explanatory in the use of that model. It is true that view will explain processes it is used to look at in ”its own terms”, not more familiar ones. But such attempt can be made.Where new tools are used, new things may be turned up; it is not only true necessarily that old things will be seen, and left still unexplained any better, in a new light.
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