こころの健康―こころに健康はありうるか？―

Abstract

The author discusses the mental health from the standpoint of a psychiatrist. 1. When we intend to understand the mind itself, we confront with some diffculties: Firstly, it consists itself as a whole and can not be divided into parts like the body which can be divided into heart, lever, stomach etc. Secondly, it is invisible as well as unmeasurable. Thirdly it has individuality spesific to a person who lives his own life, having not any universality common to others. 2. We cast the question if the mind of mental patients is truely inhealthy. Can their worries and sufferings be granted as being inhealthy? 3. The mind does not generate when our desires are immediately satisfied; it "emerges" in the process where, our desires being not satisfied, we try to deal with our conflicts, namely in worries and sufferings. Only in this instnace, it becomes more rich and plenty. Being worried and suffered does not necessarily mean to be inhealthy. The mind continues to generate itself beyond the opposition between the health-concep and the disease-concept.