Sentences with phrase «of mental»

Further it was noted that the clergy and the churches were in a position to uniquely provide a number of major services relevant to both the care of the mentally ill and the promotion of mental health.

To Jefferson, Protestant denominations were no better than the Roman Catholic Church: all stood as enemies of mental freedom, and all were therefore anathema to lovers of liberty and - the true Supreme Being for Jefferson - «Reason.»

What's needed is not a paragon of mental health, without inner conflicts or problems.

The bishops approach the nuclear issue with this same kind of mental suppleness.

After her death, her family released a statement that read: «This morning, our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, matriarch and the exquisite artist, humanitarian and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke Pearce, closed her eyes, quieted her pain, and ascended to a beautiful place.

The clergyman as counselor has a heritage which is many centuries older than those of the mental health disciplines.

The devil wants you to stay in a state of mental despair.

Truth can never conflict with genuine science: as the author says, «our understanding of mental illness can be more complete if we draw upon the insight of both medicine and Catholicism».

Usually a call to the nearest office of the United Fund (or Community Chest), department of mental health, mental health association, or county welfare office, will either produce information about available agencies or tell you where to obtain it.

One obvious characteristic of mental activity is the mind's ability to point to, or to be about, something other than itself.

Among the key concepts of community mental health programming are those of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of mental illness.

The institution of private property has a sound foundation — the proposition that people have a right to the fruits of their labor; that is, to the output of their mental and physical efforts.

Cooperation is made possible by a suite of mental mechanisms that are not specific to religion.

B.Consultation: to provide a religious specialist on the staff of the mental health center to serve as a consultant to the center staff, local clergy and the religious communities.

Working along with the other staff members, he is free to help develop and implement the philosophy and program of the mental health center.

The crisis of mental illness is probably the most agonizing of all human experiences for everyone directly involved.

This involves helping them work through their painful feelings about the «stigma» of mental illness and their feelings of guilt and rejection toward the ill person.

The author opines, rightly, how useful it would be to construct a synthesis of mental health treatments and authentic Catholic spirituality, fleshing this out with some brief case studies.

In the configuration of mental health services in the community, efforts are made to identify the clergyman's therapeutic skills.

The clergyman on the staff of a mental health center must not only define his role in relationship to the person having difficulty, but he must also define his role in relationship to the center's staff members, who are also interested in helping this person overcome his difficulties.

Make sure that the phone numbers and addresses of the mental health center, the domestic violence shelter, the crisis line, hospice, or other such community resources are available and accessible to all within the church.

Anton Boisen's view that mental illness is often a religious crisis — a last - ditch effort of the psyche to find a new orientation of meaning, correlates with Bruder's view of mental illness.

The media's obsession with the rise and fall of its celebrities, even shared with notes of positivity, continues to weave a tangled narrative about the dangers of mental illness, self - harm and addiction.

As psychiatrist Frieda Fromm - Reichmann once put it, «Unless one believes and feels that the most regressed catatonic, on the back ward of the mental hospital, is more alike than different from oneself, one will be of little help to the mentally ill person.»

the severity and duration of mental illnesses can be reduced in many cases.

Community mental health programs are being built on the concept of a necessity for an integrated fabric of mental health services in which all the available and appropriate resources of the community are mobilized for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental and emotional disorders.

Except for a minimum of help from the social work department of a mental hospital or clinic, the family is left to handle the trauma largely on its own.

By exploring the implications of the reversal of the mental and physical poles in God's case, Marjorie Suchocki is able to marshal a strong case for the alternative of a single concrescence (PS 5:237 - 46).

Because each of us is in our culture as a fish is in water, the stigma of mental illness is in our deeper feelings to some degree.

A clergy consultation service is already evolving as an important function of the mental health center, and such a program should not be overlooked in planning.

Mentally disturbed people who were victims of syphilis were, in earlier times, the primary inhabitants of our mental institutions.

If mental health enjoys such esteem in Catholic thought and practice, it is only right that the Church looks with satisfaction at the new path being opened by psychiatry... all that Sacred Scripture says in praise of human wisdom is an implicit affirmation of the importance of mental health.

The individuality of enjoyment in the momentarily dominant occasion is a shaping of the various activities of a mental environment into an esthetic pattern.

The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

Whitehead's revision of his view of life in Adventures of Ideas adjusted «the balance toward social order; my socializing of mental life does the same.

And in the same discussion, he denies that any single occasion can be called living, for «Life is the coordination of the mental spontaneities throughout the occasions of a society» (AI 266).

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

Iqbal was not unaware of the fact that the Muslims of his age were going through the same process of mental transformation that had taken place in Europe during the Age of Reformation.

Prominent experts at the time suggested that crime was really a form of mental illness that demanded therapy rather than incarceration.

Christianity is a form of mental illness - FACT, Moses is thought to have written genesis and lived around 1400 — 1500 bc.

Even the passage from without to within the animal body is the enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions.

While the Hebrews, however, had only a rough and ready knowledge of bodily functions, they experienced the intimate identification of mental and emotional life with them.

Furthermore, this significance is not simply a matter of the mental life but includes the whole life of man, bodily as well as spiritual.

Hitler was not an atheist, and he, like you considered atheism to be a form of mental illness, and like you, did not believe that atheists could be moral.

Contemplating the eternal instead of fixating on the temporal requires such a huge shift of mental gears that it breaks me out of whatever short - sighted rut I'd been in.»

Such a structuration of mental life warns us against locating the organization of experience in the dominant thread.

I'm not likely to heal you of your mental illness, but maybe I can get you people to leave other people ALONE!!!

I have tried to show in various ways that the notion of subordinate persons introduces a necessary flexibility into our view of mental operations, without requiring any major revision of Whitehead's conceptual scheme.

Such subordinate nexuses possess a diminished degree of mental spontaneity as compared to the dominant living person.