Across the globe: Mental health in time and space

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Time And Space

scholarly journals Clustering of suicides among people with mental illness

2005 ◽  
Vol 187 (5) ◽  
pp. 476-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel McKenzie ◽  
Sabine Landau ◽  
Navneet Kapur ◽  
Janet Meehan ◽  
Jo Robinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Case Register ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Temporal Clustering ◽  
Clustering Model ◽  
People With Mental Illness

BackgroundMost previous investigations of imitative suicide have reported suicide clustering in the general population, either temporal clustering following media reporting of suicide or case studies of geographically localised clusters.AimsTo determine whether space–time and space–time–method clustering occur in a national case register of those who had recent contact with mental health services and had died by suicide and to estimate the suicide imitation rate in this population.MethodKnox tests were used for space–time and space–time–method clustering. Model simulations were used to estimate effect size.ResultsHighly significant space–time and space–time–method clustering was found in a sample of 2741 people who died by suicide over 4 years who had had recent contact with one of 105 mental health trusts. Model simulations with an imitation rate of 10.1% (CI 4-17) reproduced the observed space–time–method clustering.ConclusionsThis study provides indirect evidence that imitative suicide occurs among people with mental illnesses and may account for about 10% of suicides by current and recent patients.

scholarly journals Lockdown and adolescent mental health: reflections from a child and adolescent psychotherapist

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Catty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Psychological Therapies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

The author, a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in the UK NHS, ponders the varied impacts of ‘lockdown’ on adolescents, their parents and the psychotherapists who work with them, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She asks, particularly, how psychological therapies are positioned during such a crisis, and whether the pressures of triage and emergency can leave time and space for sustained emotional and psychological care. She wonders how psychoanalytic time with its sustaining rhythm can be held onto in the face of the need for triage on the one hand and the flight to online and telephone delivery on the other. Above all, the author questions how the apparent suspension of time during lockdown is belied by the onward pressure of adolescent time, and how this can be understood by, and alongside, troubled adolescents.

Design and Implementation of Community Mental Evaluation System Online

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 2666-2669
Author(s):  
Feng Zi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Status ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Design And Implementation

This paper will attempt to solve the problems like the overload work on subjects and inaccurate test results. At the same time, we can solve these problems and reduce the time and space limitations thanks to the more rapid, private Internet. Thus, mental health will become easier to develop. Through all online psychological evaluation system, one can understand our mental status more clearly. At the same time, we can feed back our mental status on time. Counseling will be more efficient and gain a huge success.

The Many in the One: Multiple Self States in Combined Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Levin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Combined Therapy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Clinical Vignette ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

According to some relational approaches, mental health is expressed by the ability to move between various self-states while maintaining the adequate presence of the illusion that the self is continuous in time and space. Patients undergoing combined therapy are granted with the inimitable space existing between the two forms of therapy—individual and group therapy. Within the combined therapy patients, as well as therapists, are challenged by the multiplicity of self-states arising in light of this complex situation as part of a mutual intersubjective process. The article analyses the advantages of the combined therapy in light of the theories dealing with multiple self states. A clinical vignette will be presented to illustrate the theoretical notions.

scholarly journals Lockdown and adolescent mental health: reflections from a child and adolescent psychotherapist

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Catty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Psychological Therapies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

The author, a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in the UK NHS, discusses the varied impacts of ‘lockdown’ on adolescents, their parents and the psychotherapists who work with them, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in this short observational paper that contributes to the Waiting in Pandemic Times Wellcome Collection in response to COVID-19. She asks, particularly, how psychological therapies are positioned during such a crisis, and whether the pressures of triage and emergency can leave time and space for sustained emotional and psychological care. She wonders how psychoanalytic time with its containing rhythm can be held onto in the face of the need for triage on the one hand and the flight to online and telephone delivery on the other. Above all, the author questions how the apparent suspension of time during lockdown is belied by the onward pressure of adolescent time, and how this can be understood by, and alongside, troubled adolescents.

scholarly journals Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an American Mental Health Court

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
State Control ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in mental health courts in the San Francisco Bay Area, this article juxtaposes the fixity that defines the legal concept of jurisdiction with the itineracy of homeless individuals judged by criminal courts. I assert that jurisdiction is an attempt at control: by invoking jurisdiction, courts attempt to fix people and objects within time and space so as to yield a narrative of liberal accountability for which defendants can be held responsible. Rather than assume the vantage point of the law, I stick with Harriet, a person who was homeless and subject to a mental health court’s attempt at control. Moving away from the law exposes when state attempts at control fail. Claims to jurisdiction reflect the state’s reliance on control through a particular chronotope of linear time and divisible space. In differently configuring time and space as cyclical and unbounded, Harriet confounds the law’s attempt at control. Further, the state’s invocation of jurisdiction as a concept that fixes time and space produces unruly affects, or coordinates of relation that escape a rule of law presenting itself as rational. Harriet’s relationships with others reflect and enable her escape from state control: they inhabit an affective atmosphere that is produced by the law’s own chronotopic terms, but that reject the individual accountability that the law understands as a product of claims to jurisdiction. In paying attention to missed encounters between Harriet and the court, this article reveals and theorizes moments in which power escapes its own terms and enters a social, deindividuated, affective sphere.

scholarly journals The “I” Boundaries and the Psychological Well-Being of Children Aged 2–10 Years Old

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V. Silina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Resource State

The article discusses the phenomena of a psychological health through such integrative concepts as "the psychological well-being" and "the “I” boundaries". Theoretical analysis shows the oppositional nature of the studied concepts. The “I” boundaries provide contacts with the outside world, while the psychological well-being is a resource state, which allows to preserve stability of the environment and a self-stability. The aim of the study is to identify statistically significant relationships between a well-being and psychological boundaries. Control and regulation of the “I” boundaries have backward correlation with psychological well-being, which can be explained as follows: the boundaries of I in its phenomenological sense suggests the presence of another man with his desires and needs, which may be diametrically opposite; psychological well-being, on the other hand, suggests a lack of strict rules and needs to follow the requirements. The “I” boundaries protection methods ( with adult’s help and the use of speech) and psychological well-being have positive correlation. The practical meaning of the study is to confirm the thesis that a child needs private time and space, which would be accepted and protected by adults. Thus, in order to maintain mental health in childhood it is presupposed to have a balance between the relationships with environment and at the same time, the possibility of privacy.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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