Thursday, April 15, 2010

Sylvia Plath

is [not] awesome: discuss.

Mental Health

We mentioned today that so much, historically, of the efforts of psychology as a discipline have been focused on the understanding of mental illness. By comparison, far far less energy has been spent on trying to define and describe mental health. (I mentioned Abraham Maslow and Karl Menninger as exceptions.)

What, then, are the constituents of mental health?