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    Two Kinds of Mental Illness
    Two Kinds of Mental Illness
    Two Kinds of Mental Illness
    Audiobook15 minutes

    Two Kinds of Mental Illness

    Written by J-M Kuczynski

    Narrated by J-M Kuczynski

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    About this audiobook

    Someone afflicted by mental illness is neurotic if he sees his symptoms as symptoms and psychotic if does not. A neurosis is therefore an 'ego-dystonic' mental illness, meaning that the viewpoint embodied in one's symptoms is not the viewpoint of the ego of the afflicted party.

    And a psychosis is therefore an 'ego-syntonic' illness, meaning that the viewpoint embodied in the symptoms coincides with that of the afflicted party's ego. Whereas ego-syntonic illnesses are unqualifiedly debilitating, ego-dystonic are sometimes adaptive and, within limits, may enhance the subject's ability to deploy his abilities.

    In this lecture, it is explained why this is so.

    An Author's Republic audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateJun 22, 2016
    ISBN9781518927706
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      Short, sweet, to the point: using clear examples, including a pair that present alike with different underlying reasons, Dr Kay differentiates ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic